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Last year the department awarded no summas, and student pre-professional fear about the department's strict grading mounted so much that Mansfield obliged seniors this fall by offering a letter stating that Government courses award an average 14 per cent As and A-s. The Faculty as a whole...
Verba said yesterday he would not try to set any type of departmental grading policy. He also indicated yesterday that there would be some changes in the Government tutorial program.
Verba added that because he could not enforce any kind of grading policy or review on senior faculty he does not plan to enforce it on junior faculty members, whom he does have some control over, since this would put students with teaching fellows at a disadvantage.
Nancy Rosenblum '69, Jayne Assistant Professor of Government and head tutor, said yesterday she did not think Verba could change the present policy of reviewing tutorial grading since under University rules the Faculty cannot allow unsupervised grading, although it is done in many courses.
Sophomore tutor Constance B. Smith said last night she hopes Verba will bring changes to the tutorial program since she considers the present paper review in sophomore tutorial "a rather insulting policy; if they have enough confidence to hire us they should trust our grading."