Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Why gr News item: July 26, 1972: NEW dents of Columbia College was sho and head Tuesday afternoon whil Police said they were weeking a flunked out of school .....The stud .... that he would not be allowed to < of failing grades. (Used with pern Some time this semester, many the validity of the grading system Perhaps it will be during a amphetamines to pass a test the subtle realization during class that a professor's opinion because he could be during a rather common n a test, a paper, or a project. You may ask yourself, why? Why, indeed? One traditional argument in favc that grades are a necessary recoro A necessary record for who? Usua and industry. But in practice, busi extremely unreliable performa extremely subjective, and the pers the main factor in determining the counts grades, why do schools cor Grades stifle creativity by forcin the professor wants. Grades feed t who could not gain "respect" any Grades subvert real learning--th cion, and have become an end ir memorization, the antithesis of ed for students who are conditioned b, to make recall the highest form Grades have got to go. Knowledge doesn't exist outsid not a thing, but a psychic state. So b We solicit student, faculty, and monday bloody Pickpo By MIKE HEMBREE It is as choreogr It was a somewhat foregone con- More Ye. clusion in this political year that dies at tl George McGovern had the nation's influence youth vote--if nothing else--in his of their back pocket. tally, so Now it appears that Richard recently Nixon, who could pass for any of lowable your everyday pickpockets, has More" c taken that away from him. The More M youth vote joins Ed Muskie under rally). "aborted foregone conclusions." Nixon' A Gallup poll taken during the upped hi week of Aug. 25-28 gave Nixon a 61- the Galli 36 edge in percentage over viously le McGovern among voters under 30. The P: Three weeks earlier, before the leads am Republican National Convention, tion catei McGovern led among the same non-whit4 group by a 48-41 count. by a five McGovern workers surveyed Traditi USC dorms last week and unco- such as n vered some astonishing results. A and lab< canvass of one Towers building strongly revealed that Nixon was preferred In fact by 63 percent of the occupants, 23 re-electic percent were undecided, and 14 per- on's ram cent chose McGovern. to believc "I was astounded and disap- ing a sini pointed," one canvasser said. "I lever ir think too many people are misin- imagine formed about McGovern. Too many hovering potential McGovern people are are machines too apathetic." Agnew -ades? (ORK (UPI)--The dean of stu t five times in the chest, arms sitting in his campus office. disgruntled student who had ent had received notification :ontinue at the school because iission.) students here may question long night, staying up on next day. Maybe it will be a you are reluctant to question might grade you down. Or it ioment--finding out you failed r of the grading system holds I of a student's performance. Ily, the answer is for business ness realizes that grades are nce indicators. Grades are onality of the teach er is often grade. If business often dis tinue to use them? g students to conform to what he ego of insecure professors other way. ey are an instrument of coer themselves. Grades foster ucation. Grades are a crutch r the system. Grades continue of intellectual achievement. e the learner. Knowledge is ow can knowledge be graded? administrative reaction. monday cketing sumed that the mounds of them, seem t< aphed, screaming ("Four a belief that irs," "We Love Pat") kid- shouldn't ever ie Republican convention the Preside d at least a small number already have :ontemporaries. (Inciden- Don't answer me McGovern followers Nixon has b :ame up with a more swal- it all, avoidin rendition of the "Four like the plagu heer, belting out "Four gate affair ar onths" at a McGovern confrontatior "other side." s gain among the young Pete McClo s overall lead to 64-30 in dn't even tak ip figures. He had pre- form at the c d 57-31. party. The De esident now holds wide cally a maxir ong every major popula- during the coi ~ory with the exception of vention prode ~s, where McGovern leads fully scripted to-one ratio. tanecous den onal D)emocratic groups timed. lanual workers, Catholics If Richard >r union members are could probably in the Nixon column. Part y. Or ho, ,the constant spraying of States of Nixa n propaganda from Nix- And the sad rods has led many voters who supposed that they will be committ- to know bette1 f they pull the D)emocratic ing at least p November. One can Nixon is on h Nixon's guardian angel Goldwater s over the nation's voting stands by unc , lightning in hand. Where are Butz. Rogers, Enird, all of nation turns ii * .. .t ncy. fter ll, w theaout ncy rAter alof weo g press conferences ~, ignoring the Water d otherwise dodging is with those on the key knows. He coul e the speaker's plat anvention of his own ral Hotel was practi num security prison ivent ion, and the con edings were SO care that even the "spon onstrations"' were Nixon so chose, lhe rename it the Nixon N about the United n? thing is, the young, ly have the capacity ,are apparently tak art of it in. Richard is way to a Johnson weep and a nation >ncerned. iOU Joe D)iMaggio; a s lonely eyes to yu. - 1' - -- - - - - - - - -* -- - --7 VO T