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...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...
...Phi-Phenomena Tour
...Phi-Phenomenon Tour, which hit Boston last Sunday night at the Berwick Research Institute in Dudley Square. In the tradition of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Play (90 plays in 90 minutes) and Short Songs for Short People (90 punk songs in 90 minutes), Phi-Phenomenon gave its audience 10 bands in one hour—five minute sets, one minute between sets. Perfect for today’s sound byte, short attention span, try-it-before-you-buy-it-world: You get to sample several artists live, without having to commit time or money to any that...
...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...
PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPORT According to an annual poll by Gallup and Phi Delta Kappa, an international educators' organization, for the first time in 33 years a majority (51%) of Americans gave their local schools As and Bs. Only 5% assigned public schools...