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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia Law Review (Columbia University), Columbia mixes a writing competition and grade selection, says editor-in-chief Daniel Leffell. A certain number of the top writing comp scorers make the review regardless of their grades and the rest of the editors are selected on both grades and writing comp results, weighted 70/30. Individuals are not told how they made the review. "There's been a fair amount of lamenting the low proportion of applications from minorities and women. The 30 third-year editors at Columbia include 10 women but no minorities; the 34 second-year editors include five women...
Every term nine or ten juniors, seniors and an "occasional superstar sophomore" join graduate students, teaching assistants and faculty in teaching sections of the courses. They lecture three times a week, write and grade problem sets and hourlies, hold review sections and help grade the final: there are no central lectures. For 20 to 25 hours of work a week, they earn something like $2000 for a semester, depending on experience. "You can earn more in other jobs," Todd Kaye '81, head teaching fellow for Math Ar, says, "and besides the hardest work comes when you're the busiest, around...
Another problem screeners look for is the possibility of teachers having friends in their sections, raising the worry of "peer evaluation" most frequently voiced by critics of the setup. "It doesn't happen," Kaye says, explaining that section assigners deliberately separate friends and acquaintances. A set grading curve and a common final, which none of the section leaders sees beforehand, also help alleviate the possibility of bias, Hughes-Hallet says, adding "Just about the only way someone could help a friend get a good grade would be to teach him math...
...half of Winthrop House knows by now that she lives in the heart of Cardinal Country--Belleville, Ill.--a city of almost 50,000 ten miles southeast of Busch Stadium. "I tell everybody it's the home of Jimmy Connors, Buddy Ebsen, and Tuborg Gold," Photo says. "In eighth grade, one of my goals was to be senator from Illinois, president of the United States, and then the ultimate goal--owner of the Cardinals...
...paper--no blue books for this one--and get to work. And remember, no open books. Sporting News or Street and Smith, and no peeking at the bottom of the page. And, if you do poorly, don't worry--you can always write an optional paper to raise your grade...