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...Mount Holyoke self-schedules about 3100 examinations over four days. The Harvard scheduling office will make arrangements for over 21,000 test takers over the nine-day examination period. At Mount Holyoke's rate we would have to annex Memorial Hall for nearly a month, and that would be the length of the examination period. Assume we hired enough proctors to staff the Exam Center and assume again that we could get the job done in nine days. These are very large assumptions when you think that each student writing an examination would make two trips to Memorial Hall...
...second is that self-scheduled examinations would eliminate the sick-out. There is always a final day of the examination period, even at Mount Holyoke, and the well-timed 24-hour flubug will enable the determined student to get four or five make-up examinations, not just...
...current employment as a $17,520-a-year administrative assistant at the Arkansas Employment Security Department. A Clinton staffer "steered" Flowers to the agency, a referral described as "routine." If it turns out she was placed in her job in order to secure her silence, Clinton's troubles will mount...
...biology has a funny way of confounding expectations. Rather than disappear, the evidence for innate sexual differences only began to mount. In medicine, researchers documented that heart disease strikes men at a younger age than it does women and that women have a more moderate physiological response to stress. Researchers found subtle neurological differences between the sexes both in the brain's structure and in its functioning. In addition, another generation of parents discovered that, despite their best efforts to give baseballs to their daughters and sewing kits to their sons, girls still flocked to dollhouses while boys clambered into...
...COURSE, there are problems with self-scheduling, but the ones that come to mind aren't all that formidable. Besides, if Mount Holyoke...