Word: pass-fail
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Veronica Lodge '78 took a fullyear freshman seminar during her first year here. This year, she is taking Fine Arts 13 pass-fail to fill her distribution requirements, because she is in a social science concentration, and while she wanted to learn about the masters, she wasn't sure she'd do too well...
Under the new honors standards, Veronica would have taken guts for a letter grade instead, because pass-fail now counts as much as a failing grade in honors calculations...
...legislation has other quirks the Faculty probably didn't understand or at least did not intend. Because the number of Bs you need for a cum goes up as you take more courses outside your department, every time you take a fifth course pass-fail you hurt your chances to graduate with honors...
Certainly the kinds of changes Rosovsky was talking about have been happening across the country. There has been a general loosening of constraints across a set of issues that ranges from abolition of required courses to pass-fail grading to even the disappearance of dormitory rules that governed students' personal lives. All the changes did come about in part out of students' interests in as much freedom as possible, but that in turn was based on an assumption that, given the greatest possible latitude, students would be able to make the best possible choices at college. There may have been...
Among the causes of grade inflation cited by students and faculty members over the past few years are the increased availability of pass-fail fourth-course options, more lenient course grading policies, and, according to Mansfield, "the increased publicizing and patronizing of easy graders...