February 9, 2009
Vol. 136, Issue 33

Reform grading system

Tenured professor Denis Rancourt was suspended by the University of Ottawa in December after promising to give all the students in his fourth-year physics class an A+ as their final grades, the Globe and Mail reported Feb. 6.

Newsprint needs new ideas

Steve Coll, who spent 20 years working at the Washington Post, proposed introducing a non-profit model for newspaper operation in the ideas section of the New Yorker Jan. 28.

Recession-proof your life

You can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on a TV these days without being faced with a grave fact: The world’s in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Depression.

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