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Some professors have expressed their lack of interest in fighting grade inflation. While the professor usually knows best what students in their courses ought to know to deserve an A, each course’s standards must be consistent with others in the department and the College. Therefore, departments must continually evaluate their courses to ensure that standards are uniformly enforced. The departments must ensure that each course it offers is considered rigorous and engaging by other professors in the field. To this end, each department should establish a committee to periodically review the rubrics, syllabi and grading practices...
...attempting, “because of an unjust history, to reduce inequalities of wealth and power between racial groups.” His conclusion, though based upon a “liberal” commitment to fighting inequality, is that there are no easy answers: if we can, we ought to create policies that ignore race, but sometimes moral sense demands that we implement policies based...
Though queer studies shares some interests with women’s studies—such as issues of gender identity and sexuality—the two ought to be separate and distinct committees. While women’s studies deal with issues confronting the female gender, queer studies includes studies of both men and women who share a particular lifestyle and confront similar issues of identity. And since women’s studies is a committee with limited resources, any further burdens upon it would hurt both programs...
...Black Hawk Down" ought to be compulsory for those waging the current phase of the Afghan campaign. Not the movie, but the book...
...clannish and adopting holier-than-thou attitudes. The speech has become a watershed in Utah, a focus of debate over the church's future. Hinckley, whose smiling bonhomie floats over such controversy, told TIME in an interview in his office, "I am an open individual. I think we all ought to be that way--but it is all a process; it doesn't happen in a day." Since becoming president in 1995, the media-savvy Hinckley has been trying to gently nudge the LDS church to be more open. It has not been easy. Even recent proposals to supply condoms...