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Baseball at Tufts (make-up game will be played at Tufts...
...problem thusly: how do we lower the number of sickouts? There are three or four options, according to Dean K. Whitla, director of instructional research and evaluation. An asterisk could be attached to the final grade on a student's transcript, indicating the grade was completed with a make-up exam. Make-up exams could be scheduled at more inconvenient times--or perhaps the exams themselves could be made more difficult. All this to discourage the students from sicking...
...this is true, why should the ad board discourage sick people from petitioning for make-up exams? Assuming--as the administration seems to--that the list of medical excuses has risen because of abusers, is it really fair to inconvenience the truly ill in order to keep the malingerers in line? And why do more and more students feel compelled to duck their exams? These questions have been handled conveniently in the past two weeks, but not adequately...
...THOUGH I see the problems of unsatisfactory grades and make-up exams as a student, the University sees them as a logistical problem. In the process, I become a logistical problem, and I will remain one until I graduate or until the attitude changes, whichever comes first...
...report from the Office of Research and Evaluation touched off the discussion. The study, prepared by Paul B. Segal, found not only that the number of makeups was increasing but also that students taking makeups received higher grades in the courses, and that make-up requests were especially heavy in courses where the final was heavily weighted...