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...report recommending the College radically change its numerical grading scale and overhaul its honors system to combat grade inflation was debated in a closed meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday...
...recently unveiled plan would overhaul both the verbal and math sections of the test, replacing analogies with an essay-writing section and adding questions in more advanced topics of mathematics. The goal of these changes, ostensibly, is to make the test more relevant as an objective test of aptitude in the college admissions process. Unfortunately, this attempt to amend the SAT and restore its flagging credibility with institutions of higher learning does nothing to address its most crucial problems...
...list: tightening access to the FBI's classified computer databases to prevent Hanssen-like freeform browsing. Already FBI director Bob Mueller has ordered up a full array of software safeguards, many of which hinge on the completion of the bureau's massively expensive Trilogy project, an information systems overhaul scheduled to go on line over the next several years. But Ken Senser, the assistant director for security, is moving faster: he has installed safeguards designed to pick up on activities as blatant as Hanssen's habit of running his name and spook slang through the computers...
...will discuss further the possibility of expanding on the idea of law colleges—with common spaces for example—no concrete plans have been made for next year and beyond. And while the First Year Lawyering program will continue to evolve there will be no total overhaul next fall...
Recognizing these failings, and seeking to renovate the Core, however, is one thing. Seeking to overhaul the Core, and in effect, the sole guarantee to our liberal arts education, is another. This staff may consider the reduction as encouragingly increasing course flexibility for students. Yet there is no guarantee that one extra course will be used to fulfill the purpose of a liberal arts education. And as the staff continues to support elimination of the Core, they are in fact dangerously mandating a reduction of those elements which make an undergraduate education a truly enlightening experience...