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But grading policy was not the cause but the catalyst for the student protests. The real issue was student power: at the Law School even more than at the rest of the University--students have virtually no direct say in how the school is run.
And the most controversial of the resolutions--to count class participation in grading in second and third year classes was not a product of any student consideration. Submitted by one professor, it was one recommendation among many made by the Michelman Committee last spring after three years of deliberation. But...
Pam S. Seidenman, a junior in the college and chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, explains that when the Faculty recently proposed the addition of plus minus grading to the present straight letter mark scheme, the majority of students were against it.
"The professors felt it would lead to more accurate grading, but the students argued that it would lead to increased stress and wouldn't make a difference, since grading is really arbitrary anyway and to make it more arbitrary would be a farce." Seidenman says, adding that some students feel...
Morton J. Horwitz 62. Warren Professor of American Legal History, spoke and gave the demonstration his approval to which the students responded by chanting. "Make him dean." Grading classroom participation, Horwitz said, "reflects an authoritarian and repressive view of the educational process."