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...interest either in the process of production or in the resulting product of their work. Nor do they obtain satisfaction from the social usefulness of the product. Instead, they are motivated by the prospect of an external reward--wages received in exchange for labor power. In the workplace, the need to substitute external incentives for intrinsic interest arises because of the separation of the workers from control over the production process and its products. Grades play a important role in preparing young people for this kind of work environment. We object to both a economic system and an educational system...
...principal external consumers of the information contained in grades are employers and graduate schools, who need to identify the students they most prefer and the ones they least prefer. Grades provide employers and graduate schools with a cost-less means of ranking students for their own purposes. But education should not be made subservient to their needs, particularly since grades interfere with the learning process. Graduate schools and employers could device their own mechanisms of evaluation and selection if students were not graded, as already happens with students from a number of colleges, such as Antioch, which do not grade...
Members of Dudley House do not wish to exclude any members of our community. We do need to find cooperation of all the groups involved. I hope that discussions which all concerned during the next few weeks will lead to some solutions. I do not see how we can avoid some pain in the process. Thomas E. Crooks Master, Dudley House
Once the goal of 8000 signatures is reached, the proposal will be sent to the City Council. The Council will then have 20 days either to pass the proposal or to send it to the people for a special election. Schwartz estimated that the drive would actually need about 15,000 signatures since he said many would be thrown out by the City Council as invalid. Only people registered to vote in Cambridge can sign the petition...
...should you need any proof of this man's cosmic dullness, just browse through The Wit and Humor of Richard Nixon, a serious attempt by Bill Adler to reveal "the Nixon noboby knows. . . a humorist in the genuine American grain (who) has displayed a delightful sense of humor, a sharp wit, and a unique ability to bring laughter." For all is good intentions, this book reveals the man in the White House to be just what we knew he was all long--the worst item to hit the American cultural scene since plastic...