Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might decide that making exactly the same score is not important for all races and religions and come up with an Ethnic Success Quotient for tests based on validation studies of all the hyphenated groups we are going to study. Under such a system a Richmond-born-Episcopalian of English stock from a family with an income of $12,000 would be declared below average if his Binet score was below 120. A score of 100 would relegate him to success quotient oblivion as a low normal...
Instead of waking us to new thought and new freedom, they have made us, even those of us most enthusiastic at the outset, reflect on the kinds of thoughts that really do threaten us, things we abhor considering. Thoughts of preserving the system--where classes and dormitory rooms are open to anyone--instead of changing it. Mr. Collins's gang says if kids don't want them in class to "get involved" and "make" them leave. But we don't like to be forced into police committees. We catch our talk of "outsiders" and "disruption" and it reminds...
President Nixon yesterday called a nationally broadcast press conference for Friday to announce his decision on the Sentinel antiballistic missile system, the most controversial issue his administration has faced so far. It seems likely that Nixon's decision will be to make no decision...
Several of Brown's arguments are deja vu-- they have already been heard before and settled. After long consultations during the fall, the course leaders decided to abandon plans for a system of "nonsense" grading in some sections, and agreed to grade "evaluatively," according to the department's own criteria. Suddenly, Brown raises the grading issue again. Again, the "qualified" section man argument goes back to July, when the department agreed to have persons other than Soc Rel graduate students teach sections if they were not paid. Again, this issue was settled with 148 in the fall...
...statement says that the aim of the courses is to examine in depth some of the major problems confronting Americans and peoples affected by the American system. "The argument that our courses do not belong in Soc Rel seems equivalent to saying that the subject of social change does not belong there," the statement says...