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...reduce a confusing chronology to comprehensibility: the HPC's second group of members, with Ronald L. Trosper '67 as chairman, began early in their tenure to consider two questions--liberalizing the rules for taking a free fifth course, and experimenting with ungraded courses as were being tried at Princeton and Brown. Someone, on one of those Friday afternoons, suggested combining the two ideas in a proposal to allow students to take a free fifth course on a pass-fail basis. This combination, some members maintain, was the first mistake...
...long-range effect of the pass-fail mess, and the underlying problems that caused it, will become clearer next year. Former chairman Trosper is more optimistic than Monro. "People have short memories," he has said, noting that the Faculty might be impressed by the HPC's willingness and ability to rethink a position thoroughly. But aside from prestige, another unfortunate consequence of the year-long hassle with pass-fail was the opportunity cost: the HPC did little else...
...Economics); Alan N. Granger of Berkley, Mich. (History and Literature); John A. Gresham of Mt. Lebanon, Pa. (Social Relations); Albert J. Hudspeth of Houston, Tex. (Biochemistry); Bruce R. Leslie of Brooklyn, N.Y. (Biology); G.W. Schaumburg Jr. of Provo, Utah (Applied Mathematics); Allen Trasher of Norfolk, Va. (Sanskrit); Ronald L. Trosper of Milwaukee, Wisc. (Social Studies); Pieter M. Visscher of Minneapolis, Minn. (Physics) and David A. Wendt of Haddonfield, N.J. (Social Studies...
...gave the undergraduate organization another shot at the plan a few weeks ago, because it wanted to get opinions on several details it had added. Ronald L. Trosper '67, outgoing HPC president, said last night that the CEP will probably be willing to hold back any recommendation to the Faculty while his group makes up its mind...
...Trosper said that the proposal has a good chance of being approved by the CEP. But, he added, there is a possibility that an increase in the required score of 560 on the college board examinations might follow...