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rest my case
compare the average g.p.a.'s today with those of the 50s and
60s. A house or campus with 3.0 was virtually unheard of.
The Betas at KU came close one year among 27 fraternities and
a campus of about 8,000.
In visiting over a hundred campuses...in the late 50s...I checked
the grades in all of them. There was not ONE who had a gpa
of over 2.6. Based on a 4.0 system.
Well, then, is it that today's kids are that much more smarter?
Could it be that the professors give higher grades today? You
know they ARE threatened with position eliminations with a drop
in enrollments...think about that. We have tried to be all things
to all people, lowered our standards on admission, recruited like
the devil to keep rolling, keep the $ funding or increase it, never
decrease. Double secret probation exists only amongst greeks.
Naw, while I think each generation, or at least wish, will be much
more informed and successful...it is perhaps a fact that grades in
themselves are not-so-good a predictor in the final analysis.
And, bear in mind, that supervisor or boss you will have to tow the line with...may not be as smart as you.
Having prepared budgets, recruited and been an academic dean
myself, these are solely my observations. People, you likely know
that most newspapers will not print any of these things, and for
sure faculty will not address it and neither will the administrators.
Just get us a winning team....
The Greek experience transends all of this and is but one reason
some of us old coots hang on in spite of the assailing...
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