Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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University of Minnesota graduate student Alexandra Goulding revealed on Tuesday that not only had she written a paper for Minnesota basketball player Courtney James, but that Coach Haskins knew about and condoned such antics...
...Everybody does it and everybody did it: birds, bees, Bobby Knight, even those holiest of holies Mike Krzyzewski, Dean Smith and John Thompson. A paper here, a problem set there, no big deal. I don't mean to imply that these coaches condoned academic dishonesty, but to the victors in college basketball, coaches and players alike, go enormous spoils--national fame and fortune, million-dollar contracts, a guaranteed contract on a dream...
Last semester's Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice" granted its teaching fellows a great deal of power-in fact, too much power. in addition to steering section discussions and setting paper guidelines, each section leader was given the authority to determine his own method of grading first-year students. While some section leaders were willing to bend over backward to help the new students, others graded first-years as stringently as seniors. And though both options have merit, this inconsistency across sections of the same class should cease. First-year grading should...
...example, in my four years at a California public high school, I was never assigned a research paper, required to study more than one of Shakespeare's plays per year or asked to perform a chemistry lab more complex than using pipettes to observe chemical reactions. Such a secondary school education pales in comparison to that of more rigorous institutions and, accordingly, some teaching fellows recognize this variability in preparation and take it into consideration when determining their grading scales...
...many of us have had a paper returned with a mediocre grade only to see a comparable paper by someone in a different section praised to the skies by a different TF. Indeed, one of the largest problems with the Core is the fear of random assignment into the section of an unfair TF who's grading practices are out of line with the rest of the 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...