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About one-sixth of the second-year students at the Business School have endorsed a proposal to make the last week of classes and finals optional for each second-year business student, but the plan's chief proponent does not expect an early vacation...
...proposal was drafted in mid-April by Alvin C. Frost, a second-year business student, and states that the second semester of the second year is used chiefly for job hunting and not for academic pursuits. Because of this, the last weeks of the second year are "superfluous," the proposal concludes...
...students who responded to the proposal, 125, or 94 per cent, were in favor of it. Although Frost hoped to obtain about 350 responses, the number that did respond "is a large enough percentage of the second-year MBA class to make the views presented that much more valid," he wrote in a letter to Lawrence E. Fouraker, Baker Professor of Administration and dean of the faculty of Business Administration...
Gordon Donaldson, Smith Professor of Corporate Finance and chairman of a student-faculty committee which deals with all aspects of the second-year business program, said he was disturbed at the large number that did respond...
Donaldson did say, however, that the claims made by the proposal have an "element of truth" in them. "They are emotionally drained and beset by career decisions," he said of second-year students. "Of course these are very distractive to educational activities," he said...