Word: phi
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...difficult at all for Harvard students to distinguish themselves academically. No matter how much grade inflation there is, for example, the number of summa cum laude graduates remains capped at approximately 5 percent of the class. No matter how much grades inflate, the number of Junior Phi Beta Kappa inductees remains 24. Even more telling, and something that surprises most people when they hear of it, is that last year graduating senior Kevin S. Schwartz ’01 (now a Marshall Scholar) was the first undergraduate in eight years to graduate with a perfect 15.0 grade point average...
Jonathan S. White, who is president of the historically black Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Rho Nu chapter at MIT, urged organization leaders to work to keep members constantly involved...
...influence on and journalistic partner to her husband, columnist and Washington correspondent James Reston; together they produced the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard from 1968 to 1988. They met in college on a double date, for which Sally had been matched with James' fraternity brother. "She was a Phi Beta Kappa," James Reston later recalled. "I was a C-minus student...
...grading system at a large university like Harvard will not change in a day, and while Mansfield’s goal may be worthy, his means are shortsighted. Grades are used for more than self-esteem—future employers, graduate school admissions officers and Phi Beta Kappa committees will not suspect that the unusually low grade on a student’s transcript was due to the professor’s ideological commitments rather than the student’s substandard work. Students seeking to meet fixed GPA cutoffs will have no opportunity to explain the discrepancy. Arbitrarily lowering...
...course, in the case of Phi-Phenomenon, the music wasn’t exactly typical. With bands like the Laundryroom Squelchers and U Can Unlearn Guitar, the Phi-Phenomenon tour was a global collection of Noise. Note the capital N—this is a unique genre of sound...