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FM’s first point of attack was the Senior Tutors. Although they are reputedly Harvard’s fountains of all types of information, the tutors did not advance FM’s quest–each referred FM to page 57 of the Student Handbook, which proclaims that the highest grade that a Faculty of Arts and Sciences student can receive is an A, sans that extra little congratulatory decal. When asked about making any changes in the grading system, Leverett House Senior Tutor Catherine Shapiro responded, “Certainly there has been no such...
Undeterred, FM headed to the Registrar’s Office. After an arduous trek up Garden Street that evoked some sort of sympathy for Quadlings, FM was sent back to the Yard with no info. Tons of phone calls to the Registrar and answering machine messages later, FM was still at the start of the journey. Next stop: the deans...
Heeding Freshman Dean Wendy E.F. Torrance’s advice to “direct your inquiry to the Office for Undergraduate Education,” was only met with disappointment; when FM received little information from Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Vincent Tompkins, who “didn’t know the history behind our current grading structure,” we knew that something...
...FM did, however, get an A+ in navigating Harvard bureaucracy—does that count for concentration credit...
...here at Harvard, the closest brush we have with cooking is the occasional shoddily made turkey and cheese sandwich on the George Foreman Grille. But for those living in Jordan and DeWolfe, whose suites come complete with kitchenettes, culinary experiences are as common as peas and carrots. FM invited inhabitants of the two overflow dorms to tour and analyze each other’s kitchens...