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...Wing ’02, Jean J. Ryoo ’02 and Arwen K. O’Reilly ’02, as well as sculptor Kurt D. Mueller ’02—seem to further a well-worn thesis: commercialism is both cause and symptom of a deep-seated sickness of American—or Western?—culture, one that champions quantity at the cost of quality, efficiency at the cost of beauty...
...closer look at the show as a whole—not as a complex of the work of four distinct artists—reveals telling philosophical nuance. Taken as gestalt, the show is not a social critique at all: it is an indictment of art itself, as a symptom of industry, as fundamentally hypocritical in its dialogue with commercial culture...
...adding one grade to the top of the spectrum will hardly stem the tide of grade inflation that has swept Harvard for the last century. Adding an A-plus would address a symptom of grade inflation but would do nothing to address the problem’s root causes. Grades have steadily increased for years—what would prevent them from continuing to creep upwards, until 50 percent of grades given out are either As or A-pluses...
...intermediate grade between an A-minus and a B-plus, corresponding to a 13 on Harvard’s grading scale. This, supposedly, would fight the current compression of the grade spectrum and give professors another option to reward excellent work. But this also addresses the symptom, and not the cause, of grade inflation. Harvard has enough grades—12 in all, from A to E with all the pluses and minuses in between—that it would have no trouble distinguishing between students if the system were applied correctly. Adding another high grade would merely...
...long-term effects, however, are still unknown. For now, students said they see BID’s troubles as a symptom of the times...