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Certainly the kinds of changes Rosovsky was talking about have been happening across the country. There has been a general loosening of constraints across a set of issues that ranges from abolition of required courses to pass-fail grading to even the disappearance of dormitory rules that governed students' personal...
All this is evidence of the earliest and most sketchy sort, but a pattern seems to emerge: Rosovsky's committees will endeavor to remake the strictures on undergraduates in a modern mode, and to see to it that the new strictures are spread, at least in spirit, as broadly as...
Such an attitude apparently has not endeared him to the conservative medical faculty, whose concerns are more academic. The two major efforts at reform that were initiated under Ebert within the school--a revision of the curriculum in which control was taken away from the basic scientists, and a conversion...
For a student, fighting an arbitrary decision by an administrator or faculty member can be a hopeless task. For complaints against students, the faculty has discretionary power over grading and can complain to the Ad Board or the Committee for Rights and Responsibilities. Students may go to the Commission on...
* Responsibility for grading--particularly to what extent a course can depart from traditionally accepted grading practices, as in the case of Natural Sciences 36, "Biological Determinism," which guarantees every student enrolled a B provided, of course, they actually attend the class;