Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report grades to the registrar, came before the Columbia faculty which tabled it. As I understand it, given the current international situation, the automatic giving of A's to students, hence-forth called the A-plan, is designed to eliminate various extraneous influences upon the educational process, viz. students unduly concentrating upon getting good grades, and teachers bearing the responsibility of deciding upon grades which may seriously affect a student's future...
...Planning to be a freezee some day just as Dr. Bedford is, I must voice some objections to "Never Say Die" [Feb. 3]. You call the process of freezing "strange rites," but, as Jessica Mitford has ably pointed out, interment is the method that is eerie. Cryobiology is a young science, but the mass of individuals now planning on being frozen should give it a stimulating boost. Last year predictions ran that it would be 50 years before a mammalian brain would be successfully frozen, but one was successfully frozen and thawed that very year (Nature...
Last week Time Correspondent Louis Kraar wound up a tour of the capital and countryside, and found Burma a nation that has effectively buried its old colonial past but lost something of itself in the process. "Rangoon, once a great British-style city of banks and trading companies, now moves at a languid 'people's pace,' " reported Kraar. "The grand old Victorian buildings, now grubby and ghostlike, hover over wide, almost empty streets. Identical green and white signboards over nearly every shop proclaim 'People's Store'-though the Burmese people find very little indeed...
Pecking Order. As a result, the L.A. cops patrol almost entirely in cars rather than pounding a beat on foot, and lose touch with people in the process. Hurtling to one crime call after another, police sometimes seem to view Negroes and Mexicans (24% of the populace) through the eyes of an occupation army. Only 4% of the force are Negroes, compared with 13.5% of the population. By comparison, of New York City's regular, transit and housing police, 9% are Negroes, v. 15% of the population. The minorities seem sometimes in the grip of an anti-cop mystique...
...course will include discussion and reading on such topics as the structure of the student's life at various stages in his college experience, the selection process for college entrance, and an examination of the roles of the house system, lectures, grades, and social restrictions (such as parietals...