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...think Harvard lacks the resources [for the study of Eastern musical traditions],” says Koh, “but I think we lack the participation of students who should be interested in Eastern music…Harvard students are familiar with the fact that those two worlds exist, but don’t know how to link them. The Silk Road Ensemble will definitely be a link...
Most disagreements surrounding the issue of grade inflation can be reduced to a divergent understanding of the purpose of grading, namely, whether grades exist to communicate the raw or relative levels of student achievement in a course. At some institutions, grading can do both, for there will be enough students who do both well and poorly that the differences in students’ raw accomplishment will be significant enough to communicate relative performance as well. Princeton’s decision to cap A-range grades at 35 percent in order to restore grades’ role as a communicator...
...desirable consequences of drastic grade rescaling would extend to other aspects of academic life. For one, there would no longer exist pressure to earn straight A’s, for this would become an unreasonable goal. As a result, students may be more inclined to take academic risks, perhaps enrolling in challenging courses in unfamiliar disciplines, without worrying that this exploration would damage a perfect GPA. Without any “easy A’s,” students may be inspired to work harder in all of their classes, not just the most difficult ones...
...Turnbull said that clots exist under the current law and that the bill only eliminates vital guarantees for employees. Currently, companies with weaker employees cannot be charged more than twice the premiums of those with healthier ones...
...While I do not believe such blatant acts would take place on our campus, I do believe other, more subtle forms of racism and prejudice can and do exist here,” Owusu-Kesse writes in an e-mail. “We, as a community, need to recognize that we do not live in a colorblind society and we must continue to educate ourselves and each other on race issues...