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...changed by poor grades or a bad decision. For Suzzy, it was a cement shortage. Unable to afford college, she drifted for a few years. At one point she tried to join the police force in Accra and passed the initial selection process easily. But after acing her exams, the senior officer refused to let her start training, apparently because she didn't have the money for a bribe. "If I had been there in Accra, I could have contacted the big man," says Kwame, who was traveling a lot at the time. "These days, when you pass the exam...
...like it,” he said. “The biggest concern is that people who are taking Cores are getting screwed. But at least they are trying to do something about it.” Students in Core classes are required to take final exams, which means OCS cannot issue certification letters for seniors enrolled in those courses until the end of the final exam period, which falls in late May. One student asked Gross if under such circumstances, and with the small number of seniors that are affected, the policy could be suspended...
...call because she said her pain had become "excruciating - like I'm being stabbed with a thousand knives." Charlene complained of pain in her head and neck, both shoulders, upper back, lower back and one knee. There was not a mark on her. Between her physical exam, scans and X-rays, I was unable to find any abnormality other than nonreproduceable joint stiffness (they moved well except while I examined them) and generalized pain wherever I touched...
...with this presentation who were dead a day later from bleeding around the brain, heart or abdominal organs. There are also some real cases of what's commonly called whiplash that look like this too. Fine after the accident and bed-bound a week later. But Charlene's exam seemed too much an act, her vocabulary was laced with too much plaintiffese and she showed far too much interest in the notes that the nurses, the secretaries and I were making about her. She leaned over to peer at my chart, gave me time to write and volunteered many more...
While granting exceptions to exam and grade policy is notoriously difficult at Harvard, this is a serious concern that demands unique treatment. We hope that the College abandons its rigid policies so that international students will have the opportunity to stay in America...