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Registrar Georgene B. Herschbach has suggested allowing students a personal information number (PIN) separate from their ID number for the purpose of receiving test scores. We believe that a PIN would simply lead to greater confusion among undergraduates who are already plagued by the workings of the paper-happy Harvard bureaucracy. Besides, Herschbach herself has characterized ID numbers as of a "semi-confidential" nature, a description which certainly allows them to be used for the dissemination of grades. Posting grades by ID number, without the correspondent listing of names, would facilitate the distribution of grades to the benefit...
...meeting, Herschbach proposed a system by which students would select a personal information number (PIN) upon entering a course. The PIN would be used when information about the student's grades were posted in public...
...putting control in the hands of a student and protecting confidentiality," Herschbach said...
...result of the debate, Registrar Georgene B. Herschbach agreed to send a letter to the faculty, reminding them that the posting of such information is prohibited...
...numbers are of a "semi-confidential" nature, Herschbach said. "It certainly is not directory information...