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...receive college-wide honor under the new regulations a student will have to attain a minimum overall GPA in addition to meeting separate departmental requirements. The college-wide standards agreed upon are an 11.0 GPA for cum laude in General Studies, 10.5 for cum laude and 2.0 for magna cum laude. Requirements for summa cum Laude are subject to annual adjustments by the Faculty...
Students nominated for cum laude by their department must now also carry a general gpa of a 10 (B-minus) and at least a B-minus in two-thirds of their non-department courses. For magna seekers, the gpa must be 12 (B-plus) and the minumum grade B, while the requirements are stiffer still for summa candidates...
Currently, candidates for degrees cum laude must receive minimum grades "in at least two-thirds of the appropriate completed letter-graded courses outside the field of concentration," as stated in the 1984-85 Handbook for Students. The minimum GPAs for cum laude and magna cum laude degrees are B- and B respectively...
...Magna catches the antihero in the act of talking himself out of the love of his life. "She's too good for me. She's too beautiful, too intelligent, too perceptive, too creative, too everything," begins an interior monologue that could be a manual of masochism. In that story the woman walks out kindly. Not so the 20-year-old in For a Man Your Age, whose explanation of why her lover is too old for her is cruel beyond the call of love or duty. She knows all a man's vulnerabilities and has deadly...
...Magna Carta...