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Show Lets Go Straight! Dean of Students Kneel Maxwellhouses' recent announcement an-nouncement that the "curve" grading system is to be replaced by the "line" grading system is truly a step in the right direction. The inequities and complications of the old "curve" system will be outdated by the new method, meth-od, which is the result of a brainstorm of Coach Jacque Garden, professor of physique engineering. engineer-ing. Under Garden's new system, which employs the much touted honor system used at BYU, each student will take a different test while incarcerated in specially special-ly built cement and lead isolation booths. Tests will be monitored by officer Phinque Barnsworth and his staff. This new display of trust is the first of the steps in the right direction. Test papers will then be graded by students of Stewart School and the American Fork Training School, who, according to Dean Maxwellhouse, are proven to be completely unbiased. After certification by drysophila experts in the biology department; the' students will receive their grades. Students will receive grades in direct proportion propor-tion to the grades received by the top 100 male nurses during the period 1943 to 1963, provided that they all took the class under different instructors. in-structors. Those not eligible under this ruling will receive C's, providing that the number of C's does not surpass the number of E's given by Dr. Frenzie Schick during fall of 1961. A's will be limited to students with parents par-ents over age 65, unless their mothers played football for BYU last fall. The Chronicle applauds the fairness of this new system and definitely considers it a step in the right direction. |