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Faculty and students at Brown University will debate today whether to add pluses and minuses to its grading system, after 46.7 percent of the grades given in its last academic year were ‘A’ marks.And while more than 85 percent of the faculty and graduate students support the change in grading policy according to a 2002 grade inflation survey, a recent Brown Daily Herald poll found that 70 percent of Brown undergraduates oppose the change.The Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is hosting a forum this afternoon in an effort to voice student opinion before the faculty...
...spent poring over West Coast underground rap records in Manhattan. After that, the shift from fan to artist happened quickly. “I got my first set of turntables with my Bar Mitzvah money,” he recalls.If not for a few Biggie videos, Zornow would be minus a job, and Harvard minus a star DJ.BREAKAWAYPop isn’t always a gateway; it can also be an escape chute. And for avant-garde students, that’s sometimes just what they need.“I really like Steve Reich,” Mary E. Birnbaum...
...year. Within days, Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco proposed a $7.5 billion plan that relies on the federal money. It would make available to the owners of storm-damaged homes a combination of grants and affordable loans worth up to $150,000, depending on the prestorm value of the house, minus whatever insurance payouts and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) aid a homeowner might get. In New Orleans alone, the payouts could apply to about 108,000 homes. The Governor also wants to earmark $1 billion to encourage construction of mixed-income housing, mostly apartments. That's a must...
...staying firm on the perimeter, the Crimson built up as much as an eight-point edge, and fashioned a seemingly solid six-point cushion with 1:17 remaining when big man Brian Cusworth converted a pair of free throws. From there, Harvard pulled a Jacobellis. That is to say, minus the snow and the gratuitous “method air,” it snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. First, Princeton guard Edwin Buffmire, who has only a few more inches in height that I do and considerably less hair, yanked down an offensive rebound in the middle...
...will receive two marks—one in private and one officially submitted to the Office of the Registrar.In Mansfield’s “true and serious” grading system, 5 percent of students will receive A’s, and 15 percent will receive A-minuses. But Mansfield won’t share those marks with anyone other than his teaching fellows and students.By contrast, Mansfield’s “ironic” grade—the only one that will appear on official transcripts—will follow average grade distribution...