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...School Faculty voted unanimously yesterday to accept a recommendation from the Committee on Legal Education that the question of pass-fail grading in the first year not be considered this Spring...
David Riemer, a first-year student on the Committee, said yesterday he "was not surprised" by the faculty's action. Riemer also said a movement among first-year students aimed at forcing the pass-fail issue may be resumed...
...seemed clear (from a questionnaire on first-year grading) that there is strong support among first-year students for a mandatory pass-fail system. Now we may have to pick up the idea of changing the present system by getting people to elect the pass-fail reporting option in mass," Reimer said...
...motion adopted by the faculty provides that first-year students may petition to be graded on a pass-fail basis in specified small group and seminar courses, but will otherwise receive grades on an A-F scale...
Although the course catalogue states that the Spring courses would be graded on a letter scale, some students apparently felt that pass-fail grading used in Fall term seminars would extend to the Spring semester...