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...years ago, Monro relaxed the PT requirement -- from three hours a week to 30 hours over the entire semester, "Monro's reappraisals have made our program much more flexible," Cutler says. "The previous requirement of three PT's every week made it difficult to study before hour exams. We do have some problems with boys rushing to get PT's at the end of the semester, however...
...kind of a Mickey Mouse thing," complains a secretary in the Freshman Dean's Office. "We had to type up 340 warning letters to Freshman advisors. Most of the boys only had one or two more PT...
Parker sends two warning letters each semester to delinquent freshmen. This year, he was also forced to extend the exam period deadline to February 1. Still some 40 freshmen failed to meet the PT requirement...
According to college rules, a freshman who doesn't fulfill the requirement has to get another 30 PT's during the first semester of his sophomore year. Actually, less than half of those who don't meet the requirement end up paying this penalty. Many are eventually excused because of term-time employment or "adjustment problems." Last fall, only 14 of 44 failures were ordered to repeat...
Word spreads quickly around the Yard that "cheap" PT's are available in swimming and skating. A student monitor in the IAB admits that many freshmen "hang on the side of the pool for a few minutes" to meet the hour requirement. Several freshman confess to signing in at Watson Rink and then walking out the back door with borrowed skates which do not even...