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...theater is a cozy space built right inside what used to be the basin of the pool. Old lecture hall seats, minus the fold-up desks, are placed neatly down a slope to the deep end. The entire theatre, including the stage, is elevated about four feet above the pool floor by a system of wooden beams (I peeked under a trap door); this hollow, thin stage helped four slim girls with tap shoes register a 6.0 on the Richter scale in the first scene. The remnants of the pool are beautiful: an old sloped roof gives the feeling...
...counts for only 12. On the other hand, similarly lettered grades in sequential order have a standard difference of one point; a B carries 11 points, a B- 10. The difference thus inflates the group rankings of those students who just made the cutoff point of some "minus grade...
Besides skewing group rankings, this policy also makes many more students more grade-conscious. Those students who are concerned about their group ranking (for graduate schools, the job market, or even self-esteem) have a strong incentive to make the minus cut-off point. For such students, the difference between, say, a B- and a C+ becomes much more important than it would be under the more logical 4.0 system used at most colleges and universities...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 500 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 28 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 500 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 28 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...