Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professional presure on students to get high grades were not bad enough, the Faculty has increased the pressure by inadvertently penalizing students who opt to take courses outside their concentration pass-fail or credit-non-credit. While 10.5 full graded courses are required for graduation, the new honors standards make it unlikely that any one hoping to get departmental honors will utilize pass-fail...
...degrees require that a student get B- or above in half the courses outside his departmental requirements, while the magna standards call for at least a B in half the extra-deparmental courses. Thus any course in which a student receives no grade is lumped together with courses he fails--no one hoping to receive honors will take any pass-fail courses...
...Faculty feels that honors degrees have been granted too easily for the past few years, as grade inflation has boosted gradepoint averages. But the pass-fail option was never under attack--at least, not explicitly so. The Faculty should reconsider the honors legislation to make non-graded courses neutral in honors calculations, so that students need not feel pressured to take an irrelevant gut where they once would have taken an interesting course pass-fail...
...African policy, in the aftermath of Angola, has been called nonpolicy. The U.S., with no diplomatic options after the Portuguese withdrawal, could only try - and fail - to match Soviet aid with covert help to two Angolan factions...
...attacks on Kissinger had happened three years ago, he has confided to his closest friends, he is not at all sure he could have taken it. He is a tougher man today. He has seen a President leave office, the Viet Nam War fail, the U.S. retreat from foreign obligations. Sometimes late at night when he is mellow he chuckles that he may be the only disciple of John Kennedy ("support any friend, oppose any foe") left in town, a double irony since critics like Senator Henry Jackson accuse him of being too soft on the Soviets...