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Francis M. Pipkin, chairman of the Faculty's Ad Hoc Committee on Honors, said yesterday several members of the council object to the new requirements because they equate pass-fail and failing grades. Others object to the fact that students can get D's in half their non-concentration courses outside and still graduate with honors, he said...
...honors committee will consider requiring a fixed number of honors grades outside the honors candidates' concentration requirements for magna and cum laude degrees, Pipkin said...
Other options Pipkin said the committee will consider include requiring a minimum grade-point average in courses outside concentrations and returning to the old standard, which required that students get honors grades in two-thirds of their non-concentration letter-graded courses...
...seems most likely to me that we'll go to a fixed number of courses or a grade point average," Pipkin said, because with the earlier two-third option "you can take a large number of courses within your concentration requirements and a lot of pass-fail, so that you end up only needing two-thirds of four...
...CHUL is not likely to change its stand on transfers unless someone presents "an actual, concrete proposal" that creates a fair transfer process, Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty and chairman of the CHUL, said yesterday