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...interest in the dynamics of group behavior, he also appointed four observers, with instructions to record their comments after each meeting: how things went, why things went wrong, etc. The conferees insisted that they be allowed to participate in these postmortems. "What happened was that they found the feedback more exciting than the actual event -the conference," says Leland Bradford, former executive director of N.T.L...
Charles J. Christenson, chairman of the POC, defended the proposed grading reform. He said a grading system should be used only to decide who gets a degree, and not for the purposes of feedback and motivation...
...tiny satellite glands, directs the removal of calcium from bone and its release into the blood. One of the thyroid's own hormones, thyrocalcitonin, controls the converse-the transfer of calcium from blood to bone. These two hormones balance each other in normal metabolism by an exquisitely delicate feedback mechanism. Too little calcium in the blood signals the parathyroids to take some out of the bones and put it into circulation; a sufficiency of calcium in the blood induces a stop order from the thyroid...
...numbers increase, we are in danger of having so many good applicants rejected that even superior applicants in the future will be discouraged from applying. Given a reduction in male admissions, such heightened frustrations and negative feedback might literally destroy the richness of our applicant pool, our national Schools Committee apparatus, and the interest of the secondary schools they contact...
...voted for the May 11 statement (one opposed, one abstention). Two nights later, after a flood of feedback from our statement and painfully honest letters from the more "moderate" committee members who wanted to resign, my mind was changed. I decided that a large part of the fury at our statement was based on conscientious political differences. As sure as the majority of the committee was that the four demands directly pointed to a confrontation with the university, our casual decision as to who was and and who wasn't on strike was an elitists mistake. I wanted to dissolve...