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The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico will soon give this process its first test. If it works, says Robert Rex, president of Republic Geothermal Inc., "the energy could provide all the additional power the nation will require until thermonuclear fusion and solar sources are developed." But until the...
Last November, 140 of 162 firstyear students in the combined Dental School-Medical School class we steeled for a fight to return the first two and a half years, or preclinical training, to pass/fail grading. A few months earlier the faculty had voted to add two more ranks to a...
The most menacing hobgoblin to the student protestors was the marginal category. Originally billed by the faculty as a warning to only those students who wee on the verge of failure, the marginal rank had been stretched by some graders to include one-sixth of the class.
Despite speculation that the marginal grade would be wholly eliminated, it was changed to a "satisfactory" grade that unlike its predecessor would be kept confidential and would not remain on a student's record. However, a merely "satisfactory" student would still have to make up his work, and his "satisfactory...
In the end there is a hollow ring to Harvard's argument. Why has Harvard suddenly leaped into the fore in defending minority students? Harvard's position has not always been so emphatic. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for example, admitted a grand total of eight black students...