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Preceptor for the QRR Bruce E. Moley '75 said the student-faculty subcommittee in charge of the freshman requirement plans to make the data portion of the exam harder, but has not decided exactly...

Author: By Lukas P. Barr, | Title: New QRR Will be Tougher | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...subcommittee acted because of professors' complaints that their students often pass the exam without understanding the material, said Aaron S. Richmond '91, one of two students on the subcommittee, which is part of the Standing Committee on the Core Curriculum. He said the changes in the program would make freshmen work harder to understand the material, but would also give them more help with studying...

Author: By Lukas P. Barr, | Title: New QRR Will be Tougher | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

Next year's QRR data exam will be similar to the existing test, but will "involve more logical thinking and less formula-plugging," said David R. Golob '89, a test proctor and a member of the Undergraduate Council's Academics Committee...

Author: By Lukas P. Barr, | Title: New QRR Will be Tougher | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...Richmond said the QRR subcommittee would ask the Standing Committee on the Core to let members of the class of '92 fulfill both parts of the requirement by passing Statistics 100. By doing so, he said, the University could test the value of requiring a course rather than an exam...

Author: By Lukas P. Barr, | Title: New QRR Will be Tougher | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...month affair with him. The bookkeeper, named Denise Sinner (yes, really), said she knew Shepherd in intimate detail -- just check for a mole in his groin area. Shepherd, a former president of the American Bar Association, denied the affair and said he was willing to submit to a physical exam. The judge rejected the offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: Barely Qualified? | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

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