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...short cover letter addressed to the senators, Faust stressed Harvard’s commitment to expanding access to those from poorer backgrounds, while suggesting that a blanket policy—like Grassley’s talk of mandating a five percent payout rate—might be ill-advised...
...Students in pass/fail classes should be allowed to switch back to letter-grading until near the end of the semesters, as is done at Columbia, where students have until the ninth week to decide. The current deadline for changing grading at Harvard is the fifth Monday, at which point students still have little idea how they well are likely to do. So students who have chosen to take a class pass/fail for “insurance” are then forced to take the “pass” on their transcript, regardless of how well they...
...Conventional wisdom has it that too many “passes” suggest a lack of academic rigor, meaning many transcript-conscious students dare not take more than one or two pass/fail classes in their four years. Allowing students to switch back to letter-grading late in the semester means that the “insurance” can be used more frequently and also gives students an incentive to continue to work hard in pass/fail classes in which they find themselves doing well...
...prosecution, zealous assistant D.A. McIntosh (famed for his campaign against nudist magazines) sounded the threat of licentious literature to the children of San Francisco, and contended that Ginsberg could have said what he had to say with more aplomb and fewer four-letter words...
...Friday, Obama and his wife, Michelle, wrote a letter to Trinity's new pastor, Moss, announcing their resignation from the church. On Saturday, in a question-and-answer session with reporters in Aberdeen, SD, Sen. Obama explained that in the wake of Wright's NPC appearance, he and his wife had prayed for guidance on how to handle their relationship with Trinity. Obama told reporters he suspected that "it was going to be very difficult to continue our membership there as long as I was running for President. The recent episode with Father Pfleger," he continued, "just reinforced the view...