Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good as an ensign already. Such is the effect of the Naval Academy's unofficial "flunk quota," brought to light last week after a teacher tried to defend his right to fail as many midshipmen as he deemed deficient in scholarship. Though flunk quotas are larger in the lower classes, Annapolis is thus stuck with a grade system that encourages students to coast. Moreover, not only Fs but also Ds are frowned on, and grades are regularly inflated to achieve C averages-all, says an academy spokesman, because of the "practical necessity of graduating reasonable numbers of naval officers...
Radcliffe argued that, as an education-institution, it should be exempt from the ordinance -- and won its case in a lower court last July. The city promptly appealed...
Furthermore all main stage productions would suffer from the HDC plan, not just misplaced House productions, because all plays would have lower budgets. Increasing the number of shows would entail cutting the budget for each from $2500 to $1700. This is supposed to encourage experimentation and improvisation of sets, props, and costumes. But this kind of corner-cutting is more appropriate to House drama than to the main stage...
...tank up, but must it also be its pickled brother's keeper? defendants asked. Yes, the New Jersey Supreme Court said last week. "Contributory negligence is not available as a defense to a liquor licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person." Quoting a lower court approvingly, Judge Nathan Jacobs said that the law barring sales to drunks would be "meaningless, if a tavernkeeper could avoid responsibility by claiming that it was the person's own fault if he drank too much." Those who obtain liquor licenses "do so with the full awareness that...
...Most of the students in Jameson's course are upper-level and graduate students," Friedman said. "We felt that as responsible members of the Faculty it was our duty to prevent this film from being shown to a lower-level Gen Ed course of this type, consisting mainly of freshmen and sophomores...