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Pass/fail emerged in the late 1960s, washed in by the tide of student protest against "the System." Recalls Northwestern University Graduate School Dean Robert H. Baker: "Students all felt some years ago that it was a degrading experience to be compared with all other human beings in ability, interest and performance...
...Northwestern's Baker. Indiana's Yamaguchi adds that with as many as ten individuals clamoring for every opening in some graduate fields, an applicant whose record cannot be easily assessed is at a distinct disadvantage. "It is more work evaluating a student on a pass/fail system. It takes more time. Often the student gets thrown out of the pile...
Despite its drawbacks, pass/fail is by no means dead. "It should be used, for example, when a scientist wants to take an art course," says Northwestern's Baker, who thinks a student should be able to broaden his horizons without risking poor grades in subjects in which he has interest but perhaps little aptitude. In New York, City University Professor Philip Baumel goes even farther. "Most students usually opt for pass/fail for the right reasons," he insists. But Baumel, too, has noted a trend away from the new system: "There's a move...
...transexual surgery did not attract wide notice until the transformation of a former G.I. named George Jorgensen to Christine* in 1952. In 1966 Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore opened its Gender Identity Clinic, having the year before performed its first complete transexual operation. University hospitals at Minnesota, Stanford, Northwestern, Arkansas, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia and a few others soon followed suit...
...ignite the earth's oil supply and bring death to most of mankind. UFO Cataloguer and Astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who was born under Halley's comet in 1910, is taking a more realistic view; he is bracing himself for a flood of calls at his Northwestern University UFO center from people worried about the fiery space spectacle...