Word: researchers
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Final exams ignore the evaluation of the student's ability to research a problem and analyze it under non-exam conditions, his ability to exercise sound judgment in considering problems of social policy, his ability to communicate and reason orally, and his ability to work with other people. All of these are skills central to a lawyer's career. Moreover, this pressure-cooker form of evaluation is very unlike that which occurs after graduation. That evaluation--whether in a law firm, government, or teaching--takes place over time and is based on cumulative efforts...
...Break down the monolithic quality of our education by encouraging individual and small-group research and writing...
...faculty might consider whether some release from the burdens of the current six-course load in the second semester should be given to students who undertake major individual research on their own. Supervision of such research would be facilitated through hiring of more teaching fellows and greater use of upperclass students...
...M.I.T. the protest also challenges the University's policy of granting academic credit for ROTC courses, classified doctoral theses, and undergraduate research for military contractors. The research stoppage will also protest $46-million worth of classified research at M.I.T.'s associate laboratories...
Professors from Harvard, M.I.T. and other universities will hold open panel discussions at M.I.T. on March 4 to discuss the issues raised by the research stoppage...