Word: cooks
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Robert M. Cook, assistant professor of Sociology at Yale, agreed last week to abide by minimum university requirements and report grades of "satisfactory" for students in his seminar...
...Cook originally said he would not grade his students, but when required to do so by the dean's office he allowed his students to grade themselves. The group decided to turn in all 100's, but the administration objected again...
...Cook believes grades "have nothing to do with education" and are used for the wrong purpose, such as ranking for the Selective Service. But simply giving out high grades, he said, would be an ineffective way of fighting the Selective Service, since it would only lower the class rank of students outside his course...
...Cook is in the process of drawing up a set of proposals for changing the grading system at Yale...
...proposals will go to the faculty through its Course of Study Committee. Cook is optimistic that some changes will be made, though he suspects that none of the changes will be radical. Many people, he noted, consider the Yale faculty to be more conservative than the administration...