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...Maples Stories). The Maples move through an intricate arabesque of estrangements and reunit-ings. Richard slowly decides that the only thing worse than parting is staying together. The author says that the Maples' long travail was not simply a transcript of what the Updikes were going through: "A novel should never seem autobiographical to the writer, autobiographical though it may seem to the reader." But many moments in the Maples stories betray a knowledge of pain too recent to disguise. The occasion arrives when Richard must tell his children he is leaving: "The partition between his face...
...diploma last spring, actually, but was found guilty of copying two full pages of a Spanish textbook in a term paper. Princeton's a Discipline Committee voted to withhold her diploma for a year. According to The Daily Princetonian, the campus newspaper, the plagiarism incident will remain on her transcript for life, thanks to a University policy...
...Harvard has a rather firm policy of purging a student's transcript of his on-campus indiscretions after, in Fox's words, "the penalty has been paid." Undergraduates may have to go on academic or disciplinary probation, or may even "requested" to take a term or year off. But in the end, the student's formal transcript shows nothing more than the fact that a leave of absence may have been taken. Many schools are less Jenient...
Sometimes past incidents do accidentally slip out of a clean transcript, of course. Just ask Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), whose Spanish exam cheating scandal during his undergraduate days is common knowledge. (Kennedy actually got his diploma...
...student who last year rejected the sexual advances of her English professor and received a "C" in his course said yesterday that she will ask this week that the college remove the grade from her transcript...