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The class was nervous: here it was the first day, and the teacher was already talking about Yeats. No mention of exams or papers or grading policies, or even a syllabus. And a bad stammer marred his soft brogue as he spoke briefly of gyres and regenerative cycles and Cuchulain...
The Michelman Committee, charged with examining virtually everything at the Law School will next winter issue another report on the grading system, and next fall it will examine the curriculum.
Last April, for example, a student-faculty committee headed by Frank I. Michelman. Professor of Law, issued its first report on grading and teacher feedback. It recommended that students be graded on a pass-fail basis for the first semester of their first year, and that professors make a greater...
But this facade now hides what many hope--and others fear--will be a revolution, as the faculty reconsiders many of its basic policies. Recent weeks have seen a plethora of reports and recommendations, suggesting changes in everything from grading to admissions, and pointing out problems that newly-named dean...
Although major parts of the report, including the call for pass-fail grading, were rejected at a faculty meeting on May 13, the report indicates growing questions about practices long accepted as instrumental parts of a legal education.