Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many students earn Bs and As, they say, while too few receive the lower grades needed to legitimize the system. They have proposed solutions ranging from harsher curves within classes to a revamping of the 15-point scale. Yet no one has suggested the most obvious alternative. If grades fail to measure students' abilities and effort, why bother giving them...
...flyer also accuses the University of hiring other unnamed contractors who fail to abide by labor laws...
...good deal of their music has gangsta-rap aggressiveness (in The Beast, for example, they decry police brutality), but the Fugees deliver a very different message from gangsta rappers, steering clear of boastful misogyny and empty-headed machismo. They criticize performers who fail to make clear that their violent songs are fantasies, not instructions. "You got a lot of kids who look up to these artists, who think what they're saying is true," says Michel, who was a philosophy major at Rutgers University before he took a break to pursue a musical career. "I'm not saying...
...Chiusa's score is by far the show's weakest point. In several instances the music doesn't seem to have anything to do with what is happening on stage, and the lyrics feel recycled. It doesn't take too long before the story and the mutinous score fail to entirely hold the audience's attention...
This is unacceptable and wrong. Randomization has been on the table for years, most recently as a result of the Maull-Lewis report, which was written 18 months ago. Eighteen months. For Rudenstine to write a long and comprehensive report on diversity and fail to address perhaps the primary diversity issue on campus illustrates to us that he is out of touch...