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...perceived impact of grade inflation on classroom conduct and its erosion of grades as a meaningful measure of learning.” But 70 percent of undergraduate students oppose the change in the grading system, according to a Brown Daily Herald poll taken last month.One of the organizers of today??s forum, Tristan M. D. Freeman, a member of UCS, said the students were overwhelmingly against the addition of pluses and minuses because it would increase competition. “A lot of students at Brown feel that adding pluses and minuses would increase competition for grades, especially...
...Olympics’ successes—Jesse Owens’ barrier-breaking gold medal performance during the 1936 Games in Nazi Germany is just one example—have shown that the Olympics truly can serve Coubertin’s vision. It is a travesty that in today??s climate of simmering international tension, the Olympics is losing its relevance; not even the pretence of using the Games for its original purpose, to promote accord between the people and countries of the world, remains. Instead, we have an unabashed celebration of corporate sponsorship, Nielsen ratings, and hollow jingoism...
...core fans of the artists; it is not Jay-Z’s “Fade to Black.”In pulling off such an absorbing documentary as his follow-up to “Eternal Sunshine,” Gondry shows himself to be one of today??s most successful and interesting directors, completely erasing the memory of his initial flop “Human Nature.” The most meaningful illustration of Gondry’s talent, however, is that he can be as compulisvely watchable without using the surreal illustrations that made...
...imagine” old black-and-white photographs of Harvard alumni. The images, for the most part, have been removed from the campus for archival purposes. “I decided to recreate these portraits into living, color hues that will make their presence and historical value attractive to today??s students,” the director said in an email. The connection between past and present manifests itself in multiple facets of the film. Van Devere combines footage shot in 2005 with early twentieth-century music, radio clips from WWI, and “actualities?...
...later.According to a Crimson news article from June 1971, the search for President Pusey’s successor was “unprecedented in the history of any American college,” spanning nine months, considering over 1,200 candidates and costing a whopping $40,000 (translated to today??s dollars, that comes out to about $190,000).Dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok was ultimately selected from a final group of 23 aspirants from the three target groups of the Committee: internal candidates, external academic leaders, and prominent intellectuals—including public servants...