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...tenured nominees are: James S. Ackerman, Fine Arts: Kenneth J. Arrow, Economics; Herbert Bloch, Classics; Elkan R. Blout, Div. of Med. Sci.; Dwight Bolinger, Romance Lang. and Lit.; William H. Bossert '59, Biophysics; Charles W. Burnham, Geological Sciences...
Irving H. Goldberg, Div. of Med. Sci.; Leo Goldberg '34, Astronomy; Richard Mead Goody, DEAP; Alan Heimert '49, English; James R. Hightower, Far Eastern Languages; Stanley Hoffmann, Social Studies; Gerald Holton, Physics; Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36, Sanskrit...
...sounds like the scenario for a low-budget sci-fi flick, but thousands of Californians now actually believe that these horrible events will soon happen. For months, astrologers, fundamentalist preachers, telepathists, clairvoyants and assorted mystics have been predicting the imminent demise of California by a giant earthquake; many of them are convinced that doomsday will occur some time this month...
Jerome Kagan, professor of Developmental Psychology and a member of the CEP, said yesterday that the Soc Sci 125 petition "was not on rational or intellectual grounds a very strong case." Kagan said, "The pressure of evalution helps some students to come to insights which they wouldn't have done." He added that each year a number of students thank him for his exams...
...Sci 125 petition for the abolition of grades states that "grades promote acquiescence and conformity among students and exempt teachers from the necessity of being relevant, interesting and well prepared in their classes." The entire enrollment of the course endorsed the proposal that grades be abolished...