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The petition also outlines measures which organizers believe will make the thesis grading process fairer.
The petition urges the English department to implement specific guidelines for thesis-graders, incorporate student input in the grading process and "insure that a student's reader has sufficient familiarity with the theoretical and critical approaches employed by that student."
"Every hour I spend teaching sections, grading papers, meeting with students, is an hour that I don't spend working on my dissertation," he added.
Students sometimes complain that visiting professors raise their grading standards when teaching at Harvard, an outgrowth of the common perception that Harvard students are fundamentally more intellectual than students at other schools.
The CRC attempts to refute the claim that Core courses are easier (and thus less rigorous educational experiences) by examining grading patterns: they note that mean Core grades are lower than the introductory departmental classes in similar fields. Apparently, the Committee has never read the "welcome" issue of the Crimson...