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...absolutely deplorable that students would be driven away from a popular and enlightening class—with a very talented teacher who actually reaches out to undergraduates—because they feared tougher grading. The primary purpose of grading is to provide feedback and encouragement for students to seek knowledge to the best of their abilities. The purpose of grading is not to please alumni, or to prove that Harvard is tougher than other schools. Grading is certainly not designed to discourage students from seeking knowledge they otherwise would—and yet that is exactly what Jasanoff?...
...give up, preferring to put forward their best efforts in classes where their toils will be rewarded. The most determined people never know when to stop talking, because they know class participation grades will be competitive too. Students lose faith in the system that is designed to provide helpful feedback...
...members aren’t the only ones fed up with GESO’s tactics. Many of its own members removed themselves from the membership list, stating that the GESO leadership is deaf to feedback from the general membership. Is this the group Yale graduate students want to represent them? Clearly...
...Iraqi objections to Ali Shnan al-Janabi and his ilk are precisely the kind of feedback the Americans say they need in order to rout out the irredeemable. "There will be a vetting process," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week. "People will say, 'Well, wait a minute--those people were part of the senior Baath Party,' in which case they'll be taken out." The Garner camp has another fear: that some Iraqis may try to use the de-Baathification process to settle old scores, demanding that a boss be sacked for personal rather than political reasons. But generally...
...Tsoi of Tsoi, Kobus and Associates, the local real estate consulting firm leading the feasibility study, said last night that its goal is to evaluate the school’s needs, solicit feedback from community residents and gain support from the city of Cambridge—all before any construction projects begin...