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...School Faculty voted Tuesday to permit pass-fail grading in small group first-year courses...
...fund drive turned into a 5 million dollar success-the biggest single fund-raising drive ever conducted for a law school. The curriculum has already moved substantially toward a pass-fail system, and more changes are expected over the next two years. Contrary to some of the more dire predictions, the Law School is still standing...
Faculty hesitation about this proposal in May and perhaps again in October may signify a kind of backlash: a sense, intensified by the amnesties of May, that curriculum may be disintegrating under the impact of Independent Study, Pass-Fail options, and generally softer or inflated grading. These faculty misgivings are not wholly irrational. But to vent them on a proposal that would demand serious examination of a student's idiosyncratic program creates a not uncommon union between pedagogic conservatives, who resent the symbolism of any change, and pedagogic rebels, whose visions of dramatic change differ so greatly among each other...
...time for nostalgia for many-or, rather, anti-nostalgia. It does seem hard to remember things anymore. Like the contents of the books we dutifully place on our shelves, the number of pass-fail courses we can count towards our majors, which drugs we have taken (and when, and why), which people we hate and which people we love...
reform of grading, either by dropping letter grades from the student's transcript or by extending the pass-fail option to allow students to take more than one course in a term pass-fail or to decide at the conclusion of a course whether they want letter or pass-fail grades...