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Thesis advising is not a huge job. The advisers are chosen for their expertise in a certain field, so there's no class preparation involved. Once a week (if the adviser is lucky) the student and adviser informally meet for a short time. As the deadline approaches, some editing and...
ARTFUL equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then you lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or...
But with every passing day, the legend of The Ad grew stronger. A team of Widener librarians called The Crimson to settle a bet about whether The Ad was real. A friend said she saw The Ad next to someone's toilet in Winthrop House (with a caption I will...
His grading system, Layzer says, is likewise calculated to give students as much freedom of thought in the class discussions as as possible. He cites one case in which a student wrote a paper heavily criticizing the professor's book Cosmogenesis.
He cites the pass-fail grading of all classes as a benefit of the system, but says that students still prepare because the small tutorials make evasion difficult. The reliance on essays rather than multiple choice testing is also a positive asset, he says.