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Fitzsimmons also said increased recruiting efforts, more direct mailings to students and the Admissions Office's new policy of allowing students to substitute the American College Test (ACT) in place of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) may help account for this year's increase in applicants.
The current policy allows second-semester seniors who are honors candidates in concentrations requiring general examinations to take an hour-long examination in place of a course's final exam. The honors hourly exam in such cases, taken in addition to the general exam, serves as a substitute for the...
Paul Pierson, head tutor of the government department, echoed these sentiments. "The government department has discouraged [instructors] from exempting thesis students from their normal requirements," he said. "General exams in part build on course material and are not considered a substitute for them."
"Lectures can be inspiring and entertaining, but I think there is no substitute for writing," he adds. "Writing and feedback should be a greater part of the undergraduate experience than it is."
Ellen Al-Weqayan said her daughter filed another complaint Monday when a substitute teacher made negative comments about her last name and heritage. Giroux said that the substitute teacher would not be hired until the matter had been investigated.