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C00002 00002	Nicole Romito is petitioning to take my course, CS262, on a pass-fail
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Nicole Romito is petitioning to take my course, CS262, on a pass-fail
basis. I would not normally support such a petition, but in this
case due to my long illness the students received no feedback
(except for one early assignment that tested background knowledge)
until a February 23 take-home midterm that was returned to the
students on March 3. The course did not have a teaching assistant,
and I was unable to do more than present most of the scheduled
lectures for a month, with aftereffects for another week or two.
The result is that the normal support system for students was not
functioning. Romito is here on a one year leave of absence from
her employer, and is up tight against several deadlines, GPA
requirements, distribution requirements, etc., that leave her
no room to maneuver if she is to achieve an M.S.; for example,
she can no longer take all the required courses for a less
mathematically oriented degree.  I believe a bending of the
rules would be in the interests of fairness.

				Robert W. Floyd
				Professor
Miss Romito:

I recommend that you edit out of your petition most or all
references to the difficulty of the course and appeals to
sympathy (a university has lots of tough courses and the
grading system isn't based on sympathy), and base your
petition on the fact that it was not a normally conducted
course (no TA, professor sick for a month), that your
program provides you no alternate option, and that you are
required to maintain a certain GPA.