Word: option
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With the abolition of Junior Generals, those English concentrators fol-lowing the regular concentration program will have the option of fulfilling the Shakespeare requirement with a half-course or a three-hour examination...
Last February, the department created two options in addition to the regular English concentration. One option emphasizes either a genre or a comparative literature approach; the other stresses creative writing...
...Materialist Cinema: It is the duty of the cinematic revolutionary to illuminate, develop, and demystify the daily contradictions that make the revolution-a hope, an option, a necessity, a reality-in the minds of the oppressed. He must never neglect the all-important relation between analysis and praxis, nor ever satisfy himself with the egoistic transformation of polities into Art-the exploitation of revolutionary struggle in the production of an "aesthetic" whole. It is not enough to attack the decadence of the bourgeoisie, to make commodities of their sexual and psychic aberrations, because all "finished products" can be easily digested...
However, a dissenting opinion drafted by the three student members of the Committee holds that "the present option system satisfies no one," and that "the costs of [reexamining grading] are outweighed by the need to respond to the profound concern of the present first-year class...
...seemed clear (from a questionnaire on first-year grading) that there is strong support among first-year students for a mandatory pass-fail system. Now we may have to pick up the idea of changing the present system by getting people to elect the pass-fail reporting option in mass," Reimer said...