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...ambitions”—we haven’t done enough to “challenge the beauty pageant regime” (Opinion, “Miss What?” March 13). As the president of IMPACT, I don’t see this as a problem??IMPACT is, by virtue of our mission statement, an apolitical organization...
...radicals, few academics fall neatly into one of these two camps. Most academics are both traditional and radical in their intellectual commitments, and in this sense they live out the contradictions of the university in a very real way. The way that academics formulate the “problem?? of the emergence of new disciplines —how to continue to value the old texts, methodologies, and ways of thinking at the same time that we struggle to come to terms with the new ones—is a testament to this defining ambivalence...
...adding one grade to the top of the spectrum will hardly stem the tide of grade inflation that has swept Harvard for the last century. Adding an A-plus would address a symptom of grade inflation but would do nothing to address the problem??s root causes. Grades have steadily increased for years—what would prevent them from continuing to creep upwards, until 50 percent of grades given out are either As or A-pluses...
Pedersen has repeatedly pointed to the “compression” of the grading scale as a problem??arguing that graders are not given enough choices for evaluating student work...
...would do next-to-nothing; it is only a feel-good measure designed to look like reform. It would keep an incredible amount of unregulated money in politics, by pushing the problem that currently plagues national political parties to the state level and thereby ignoring the source of the problem??the money itself...