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During roughly the same period, various committees on campus debated a number of ideas that could potentially alter University life. From affirmative action to technology transfer; from a new student government to the old, but still controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities; from pass-fail courses to make-up exams; from a shortage of Core courses to growing pains in the Social Studies concentration; from race-related problems to conflicts with Cambridge residents; issues arose that struck at the heart of student and Faculty life. Yet the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences met only a half-dozen times...
Last April, for example, a student-faculty committee headed by Frank I. Michelman. Professor of Law, issued its first report on grading and teacher feedback. It recommended that students be graded on a pass-fail basis for the first semester of their first year, and that professors make a greater attempt to work with students, by using practice tests and more section leaders...
Although major parts of the report, including the call for pass-fail grading, were rejected at a faculty meeting on May 13, the report indicates growing questions about practices long accepted as instrumental parts of a legal education...
...rejecting the pass-fail plan, the faculty debated whether grades are necessary to motivate students or to provide prospective employers with information...
James Vorenberg '49, associate dean of the Law School who will become dean in July, said last week that the vote against pass-fail represents a rejection only of the specific proposal. "Pass-fail is raised every few years, and it is conceivable that it will come up again," he added...