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Gura’s story, published last April, examined how newspapers had not sufficiently questioned evidence implicating James Van de Velde, the Yale student??s thesis advisor, as a possible suspect...
...reflect the inevitably substandard quality of his work and another higher grade to comfortably pad his transcript. This year, in an attempt to give employers and grad schools more accurate feedback as to where students stood in Harvard classes, the ECP recommended giving two evaluations on each student??s transcript: a grade to reflect the (supposed) quality of his work, and the percentage of As given in the class to alert outsiders as to whether his transcript was comfortably padded...
...grades on his paper guesses he needs improvement but doesn’t now how to improve (because there is no need, of course, to encourage TFs to provide substantive qualitative remarks or to encourage professors to interact more with students). Likewise, the employer with two numbers on a student??s transcript guesses that student didn’t have to work hard for that common seminar A but doesn’t know how to prove it (because there is no need, of course, to attach substantive qualitative remarks to transcripts or to overextend the faculty...
...awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student??s set of badly hidden headphones...
...none of the assigned readings, failed to address the topic question and then balked at his “C” grade because—and I quote—“my 12-year-old brother could understand my paper.” (I kept the student??s grade unchanged but gave his brother...