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Attendance has been sparse at nearly everymeeting, and sergeants often find themselvesaddressing empty school auditoriums...
...embrace the inflation of first-year grades. There is already too much luck involved in nabbing a competent teaching fellow and a supportive section of students-irregular grading scales shouldn't be part of the crap shoot. Such concern applies not just to first-years, though it often seems that we bear the brunt of the burden, but also to every student in a class where grading consistency is ignored...
...class. Professors can do much to alleviate this problem, however, by circulating a set of standards and expectations to be evaluated in every paper in exam. Make sure the TFs follow the standards. Make sure the students know what is expected. Communication is the key, and it often will make life a whole lot easier for everyone...
Last semester, "Warren Court" Professor Morton J. Horwitz often lectured about our inalienable, constitutional rights which are immune from the intrusion of state governments. The federal Bill of Rights can not be applied differently in different locales. But even as he preached this gospel, his course's sections, our metaphorical states, employed varying grading standards and thereby denied us equal treatment. Perhaps the next time the course is offered, he-and professors in all large classes-will take his wise advice. Jordana R. Lewis, a Crimson editor, is a first-year living in Thayer Hall...
Pointing out that in the current informationage, access to information resources can oftenseparate the "haves" from the "have-nots," Campsaid she felt anyone with a research purposeshould be allowed in to use the library'sreference area. The University library system has,for example, expensive databases often unavailablein public facilities...