Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every year since 1983, the Citystep dance program has sent Harvard undergraduates into four Cambridge public schools to teach dance for two hours a week. This weekend, the fifth-grade students and their Harvard teachers will show off just what they have been learning all year...
Honnet says that the number of students coming to Harvard who either have eating disorders or develop them is increasing. "The incidence at Harvard parallels incidences in the population as a whole," she says. Indeed recent studies found that 75 percent of the fourth grade girls in a San Francisco school were dieting. Other studies indicate that even if the number of people with outright disorders is not increasing dramatically, the number of people on diets who weigh a normal amount is large and growing...
...class was given 10 minutes to decide our fate. And although I believe that my decision not to attend the meeting will have little effect on my final grade, this possibility was something which each one of us considered as we sat there during the tense period. It was like being asked by the Pope if you believed in God, or turning in CUE forms before grades are handed out. His position was inherently part of the information which each of us used to weigh the pros and cons...
...seems a bit of a corruption to the educational process to which this university is charged. It also seems as though there is a possibility that other section leaders will not be as fairminded as mine. Not attending these section leaders' meeting could, in fact, lower a student's grade...
...offered Pakistan cash and uranium in a nuclear trade. He has tried to buy nuclear weapons from China. At the very least, he is building the intellectual resources in Libya to help make weapons of his own. Libya's Tajura Nuclear Research Center offers use of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium. The leaders of the West must face up to the ultimate terrorist threat...