Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students waiving exams will get grades based on work finished to date. The faculty, in a three-hour meeting, voted three additional options: normal exams, take-home exams completed by July, and exams postponed until the Fall. They defeated a Student Association proposal for a pass-fail option...
...documents the latter is considerably more confusing (and, in fact, has been amended, which adds to the confusion) and it is unfortunate that the university has chosen to circulate it rather than the original resolution. Here is the opening of the faculty resolution: "Each instructor shall allow students the option. . . ." The second sentence concludes: "if any student so requests by May 19, that student shall be graded by the instructor on a pass-fail basis." There is no trace of this "shall" in the second document, where it has been reduced...
...Mace; but then the air, apart from radioisotopes, must be better anywhere else now, even in a coal mine. A major earthquake was predicted, too, not merely by seismologists but by the religious protection rackets, which were transferring east to pray out the millennium and to await the second option of chiliasm there . . . At about that time, as well, the American Legion opened its campaign against my San Diego neighbor Professor Marcuse, an action I read as a warning to keep my peace about the war or risk being dealt with Chicago-style myself . . . I took the least frequently hijacked...
After the national UNDO meeting ends Thursday, those men who have turned in their cards will have the option of abiding by the decision of the convocation or retrieving their cards and taking action on a personal basis...
...Students choosing not to take the final exam this spring or next fall may receive a letter grade on available evidence or apply for the pass-fail option at the Ec Tutorial Office before May 20. All students who would presently fail will be notified...