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Grading Conmmitee Urges Deflation No Student Reps on Cila Committee Continuous MIT News Service a Cambridge Since 1881 Massachusetts -Volume 98, Number 5 - Friday, February 24, 1978 © 1978 The Tech Grading conmmitee urges deflation By Alf Geller Committee throughout -their vote would be taken at the May percent A's in the fall of 1960 and The faculty Ad Hoc Committee study; CEP's approval is there- meeting during the end of the 41 percent in the fall of 1977. The on Grading is putting the fore likely. The proposals will term or finals week. committee argues that grade finishing touches on its grading probably be discussed at the inflation is undesirable for a il | report and will foward its March meeting of the faculty and The Grading Policy Committee number of reasons. "The present proposals to the Committee on after at least another month of issued a preliminary report last state of our grading does not Educational Policy (CEP) withing debate voted on by the faculty at spring demonstrating that grade differentiate finely enough the next few weeks, according to large. If this schedule places the deflation occured throughout the -between the various levels of per- Professor of Physics Thomas full faculty's vote after the middle country's universities over the formance and poses a threat to Greytak of the Grading Policy of April - a possibility - the. past 15 years. MIT gave 21 to 22 (Please turn to page 6) Committee. iaI,-··-·plB r ·14··e--P- - --.- - -- I-------- 1NSL-DE The Committee will recome mend instituting, Letters of Com- How MrIT stacks up against the rest I awarded to less Associate Dean Ken Browning mendation to be 3.50- plans to leave the Institute in than five percent of the students April after 12 years in the in each course for special Dean's Office. creativity or insight;. placing the I grade distribution for each course on the grade report and tran- script; and redefining grades. _M ITmean fall term G P.A., , ,BE, Initially the grade distribution 3.C00- adjusted to 0 - 4 scale w p-- will appear only on the grade report; after a one to two year 0too~~~~~t ~ 'B' ®e~a9eeeee Though Harvard University grace period the grade distribu- _ _ _ . osaI~ 00 I doesn't own the Harvard tion will be included on the tran- i Bridge anymore, they still script, barring reconsideration by receive $200 per month from the entire faculty. Freshmen will 2,50 M an fall term G.P.A. of all universities, I of Com- I the city of Boston. not be eligible for Letters ~0 - 4 scale (from Office of Institutional i mendation. %a,,o~~ ,'^~ P - ~~~Research, UCal, Berkeiey) Greytak expects these --- 9_ proposals will come up for debate O_ after the Grading Policy Commit- 1960 61 62. 63- 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 tee releases its'report to CEP and the public. CEP has been con- Yeart Matt Dahlah V sulted by the Grading Policy c - I -- m · · alrSI··lrlSPllrra ICI--------- ----P---'-d-.-- Y Pqb C-· -AIPB Women who opt for a feminist lifestyle soon discover the price 1050 they must pay. To be a feminist in AcademicCouncil sets class sizsie at the past. Due to a decrease in .the, to the Institute's housing limit. is to be a person engaged I By_,, Elias Towe as ii has been in America in Mri with no way and Wendy Myers - number ofi !reshmen living In tne Future, will accept in constant struggle, Although- overcrowding for independent living groups or about 45 per cent of its appli- to turn back after your con- The freshman class in 1978 and next fall is expected to be about commuting from home, an in- cants if the total number of appli- sciousness has been raised and no in subsequent years will be limited the same as last fall -a little over for Insti- cants remains constant, reports in sight. crease in the demand concrete "victory" to i,050 students in order to alle- 100 people - it will be reduced to tute housing has resulted. Peter Richardson '48, Director of Robin Morgan said at viate the overcrowded housing about 60 people by 1980 and 30 A far greater problem, accor- Admissions. He also said that a Hampshire College last spring situation. people by 1982 according to ding to Browning, is the loss of more effective use of the waiting Browning. that true liberation means not the flexibility which Random Hall list will be necessary to ensure the with the fact The decision made by even having to deal Council is a "medium Reduction of crowding in tihe had provided. Random Hail had target number. that you have been oppressed. By Academic had a com- to long-term" one, according to houses, facilitation of staffing been considered a reserve housing "Of course if we this definition, women living now freshman subjects and meeting; facility but now that it is a part of puter and everything [the admis- We Associate Dean for Student Af- will never truly be liberated. '66. admissions targets with accuracy the housing system a 'smaller sions procedure] was real time, we I the laws, work at fairs Kenneth C. Browning trouble," may change Class size will remain constant were all considered in reaching margin for error exists. The target would have no nontraditional careers and adopt this decision. class size can no longer be so close Richardson concluded. alternative lifestyles. But few of us and will not be reviewed annually have found ways to totally shake off'the ghosts of our socialization; they are there to punish us every on CIlA committee time we exercise our newfound No student reps freedom. By Elaine Douglass Another controversial matter is in the United States. - turer in Political Science, and No students have been ap- the alleged presence of intel- The ad hoc committee was Myron Weiner, Professor of We can assert our right to go Political Science, would be willing out alone to restaurants and pointed to the ad hoc Institute ligence agents from foreign formed in early January but was committee of six faculty members countries in the university com- not announced until February 22 to see students represented. theatres, but our own ingrained Ad hoc committee members In- feelings about being alone in. and administrators recently munity to spy on foreign students. in Tech Talk. Gray to The ad hoc committee is not ex- Three members of the ad hoc stitute Professor Ascher Shapiro, i public and the behavior of those created by Chancellor VP for Administration and who assume that a woman out study MIT's relationship to the pected to officially take up this is- committee said they had no objec- and intelligence agen- sue, but it is known to be of con- tion to the presence of students on Personnel John Wynne, offered alone is looking for company United' States of stu- often detract from our enjioyment. cies. cern to some committee members. the committee. Ken Hoffman, no opinion on the question Among the issues the ad hoc It is widely believed-for exam- chairman of the ad hoc group and dent representation. We can demand (and of Professor of Management sometimes obtain) fair treatment committee is expected to take up ple, that agents from Iran and head of the Department is the covert funding of research Taiwan coniduct surveillance of Mathematics; Louis Menand, As- Phyllis Wallace refused to be in- on the job, but we are likely to terviewed by The Tech. pay the price of alienation from projects on which both faculty Iranian and Taiwanese students sistant to the Provost and Lec- our coworkers. and students might be employed, We can learn to express and the placing of individuals on ourselves loudly and intelligently, campuses to secretly identify and but all too often the little voice recommend -members of the un- whispering "don't be too smart or iversity community, including US men won't like you" renders us and foreign students, -as can- deaf to the beauty of our newly 'didates for employment by the in- discovered strong voices. telligence agency. In the past, some individuals We can choose to remain who were secretly recommended single, childless and autonomous. were subject to exhaustive in- but the thought of being left alone vestigations of which they had no later on in life makes in- knowledge. dependence a courageous choice "I don't think students have Women in America have been much to contribute to these mat- s-ocialized to seek approval from ters of Institute policy," Chancel- others: to iook for visions of lor Gray said last week in an in- themselves in others' eyes. To terview. choose feminism is to declare, In 1976, a Senate committee once and for all, that no one is in revealed a range of covert con- a better position to decide what is tacts between the CIA and US un- "right" for a woman than the iversities. MIT has been notified woman, herself -Julie Melrose it unwittingly participated in a i The Daily Collegian secret study, but the extent of that participation was not substantial. La*rrrr* -----C--r -. J- now1 _LM~ PAGE 2 THE TECH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1978 I -·~·IBrll~ -aPL h-~ei ~I·~~DB·qlp%~ Browning to leave MIT 9 I 1. - 1 -8. -World Egypt severs diplomatic relations with Cyprus - The Egyptian-Cypriot commando skirmish at Larnaca Airport, Cyprus, has led Egypt to break formal ties with Cyprus. The inci- dent began with an airplane hijacking involving two Palestinian gunmen who. had earlier killed a prominent Egyptian editor.
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