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About 60 per cent of the faculty voted in favor of adding three grades--A minus, B plus, and B minus--to the grading system, in an attempt to check grade inflation...
Jerome J. Pollitt, professor of classics, and author of the grade amendment, said this week he "proposed the measure two years ago because 80 per cent of the grades at Yale...
Robert E. Apfel, chairman of the student-faculty Teaching and Learning Committee, said this week that a poll of faculty members showed that 80 per cent of the faculty was in favor of "a greater degree of structure in the grading system." Some faculty members, and A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale, favor a stricter 100-point grading scale. Apfel added...
...report concluded that citizens based their votes on whether or not they believed the bill would effectively deal with that problem. Eighty-five per cent of its supporters felt that Proposition 2 1/2 would make local government more efficient, while 61 per cent thought it would do the same at the state level...
...those who did not vote on the proposition, however, only 38 per cent believed it would increase efficiency at the local level, and only 34 per cent thought so about state government...