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Show Wary of Grades farns Stanford Prof. to calif (LP) College should give students a chance v ?& ( identities, to decide what kind of people they want !0'ond prof Sanford M. Dornbusch, executive head of Stan-,e Stan-,e declares r Socio0gy. "The best direction of student effort lord's Wresting The B.M.O.C. (Big Man on Campus) in high . k to-ard sen- wqM when he stays in the same groove of S Activities at Stanford. :rW"' ,. VFARS should be years of excitement, experimentation, -colli"" TrhanEe We can abybe is related to y- We can make a major '2n!y Priding a back-K,:' back-K,:' fTwarmth and approval g?i errors do not produce kar or blame. lTlll be disquieting. All ol ? applaud the .student is where he's going and totly Plods towards his tar-, tar-, M his persistence may be a ISisive caution. Early wpk may be immature, and we Sy.omake a . virtue , riig to an early decision. Stu-iM Stu-iM are not junior adults . . . Both students and their par-Bls par-Bls should be wary of putting w.to, much emphasis on report Mombusch said 1. "The av-erade av-erade at Stanford today 'is the same as the average X) ' 'jears ago, but the level of aca-o" aca-o" Wc preparation commitment and is much higher. 'An 'A' or 'B' at Stanford means lie student is floating on top of k cream. There is very little milk the bottle. If every one of our Hidents worked twice as hard and ferried twice as much, there would i no difference in the typical We. All that an 'A' or B' refers nnl is a competitive position that dftm means of ranking students. K "If a student is doing fairly well, .J Jo not believe it is all true that Ute best investment of further en-pjy en-pjy is worrying about or prepar-,n prepar-,n t k 'T those barnacles on the aca-nj.-kmic ship known as tests." |