Word: junior
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Jack D. Burke '70, one of the four students who spoke with Huntington, said that they changed their demand because there was not enough time for the faculty to drop the exam. The faculty will meet on Monday, which is the first day of the four-day take-home junior essay exam. Huntington will present the petition, along with a statement from the students asking that the essay's influence be lessened...
...faculty has already decided to eliminate the junior essay starting next year. "The general feeling of the department was that doing away completely with the essay would take considerable restructuring of Gov 98," Huntington said, explaining why the exam was not eliminated this year...
Students presented a petition to Samuel P. Huntington, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government and chairman of the Government Department, asking that the junior essay be dropped this year. The petition was signed by 144 of the 189 students...
Huntington said that he sent letters to tutors on Monday asking how much their students knew about the question in advance. "It was not to check up on the tutors--there was some misunderstanding about the junior essay this year," Huntington said. The grading committee will be able to tell whether the student walked in cold or if he was prepared," he added...
Frank G. Hutchins, assistant professor of Government and Head Tutor in the department, said yesterday that, although the junior essay officially counts for one half the final Gov 98 grade, the mark submitted by a tutor is rarely altered by more than half a grade...