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...Cliff ("Charley Weaver") Arquette, and daughter of a Second City improv artist and an activist poet, Rosanna played in the mud at Woodstock when she was ten and was taken by her mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then I moved in with a guy. I was 15. Oh, my God, isn't that terrible?" At the suggestion of her parents, Arquette made her stage debut in Los Angeles...
...critical difference is that at the new system uses a straightforward scale of grade point averages and counts all letter-graded courses toward a student's GPA. In order to receive College-wide honors under the new regulations, a student will have to attain a minimum overall GPA in addition to meeting separate departmental requirements. The College-wide standards agreed upon are an 11.0 GPA for cum laude in General Studies, 10.5 for cum laude, and 12.0 for magna cum laude. Requirements for summa cum laude are subject to annual adjustment by the Faculty...
...critical difference is that the new system uses a straightforward scale of grade point averages and counts all letter-graded courses toward a student's GPA. In order to receive college-wide honor under the new regulations a student will have to attain a minimum overall GPA in addition to meeting separate departmental requirements. The college-wide standards agreed upon are an 11.0 GPA for cum laude in General Studies, 10.5 for cum laude and 2.0 for magna cum laude. Requirements for summa cum Laude are subject to annual adjustments by the Faculty...
Cutting the budget may also involve combining grade levels--so-called multigrading--in classes with fewer than 21 students to reduce the number of teachers...
...late addition in the acne rash of teen stories, The Sure Thing's script (by Steven L. Bloom and Jonathan Roberts) must qualify as pretty "intellectual and stuff." Alison might fret about maintaining her grade- point average, and Gib may actually fall for her because "she happens to be an excellent judge of quality shirtwear." Welcome to the decade of lowered expectations, which Rob Reiner's meandering direction fully satisfies. The Sure Thing aims not to blaze trails but to avoid the gross failings of its predecessors. All right, then. In teenpix a shrug is better than a shudder...