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Some have argued that grade inflation has not occurred at all, and that higher grades instead reflect a more talented student body as reflected by Harvard’s increasingly competitive admissions process. The Ivy League’s academic index for first-years, based on both their SATs and high school GPAs, has been rising. Students might also be producing better work because of the increasingly prevalent use of technology. Through the use of computers, and especially the Internet, students have more valuable educational resources at their fingertips than ever before...
...today’s students are more proficient, they should be receiving higher grades, with or without a more lenient grading policy. More As would then reflect achievement, not inflation. But while many say that students’ abilities have increased, aptitude alone cannot account for the astonishing percentage of Harvard students that receive As and A-minuses today, nor for the full-point jump in average GPA over the last 15 years. “Only a very small part of this is an increase in academic talent of the students,” as Pearson Professor of Modern...
...controversial statements reflect his view that, as a practical matter, the use of torture is unavoidable...
...undergraduate community. For this reason, we hope that the recent comments by new Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03—that she wants the council involved in to be more “political or controversial” issues—do not reflect a return to the bad old days...
...Archive in conjunction with his new course on Fritz Lang, emphasizes Lang’s sensitivity to the power of the media. “Fritz Lang’s films are films about how things look and how we see in the modern world, with modern means. They reflect on the problems of perception, a perception increasingly mediated by machines, institutions and political forces. Lang is a particularly astute and prescient observer of the ways in which technological networks permeate social spaces and human lives. For no other filmmaker are the mass media so unabashedly and insistently the defining...