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You get the feeling that Lewontin has been through this all before. He's no crusader; he even seems impatient at having to explain his reasons for opposing the grading system, which are to him self-evident. But he continues to commit quiet little acts of impiety against the religion...
Gould, who uses a conventional grading system in his other courses, says that Nat Sci 36 could not have been totally successful because the "utopian model of social change" that it was based on is not applicable to the Harvard situation.
"The reason we did it was not to change the whole system, but for our own internal consistency," he says. "We felt that if we were teaching a course of radical political content it would be inconsistent to use a conventional grading system."
F.W. Peters, president of the Law Review, called the current policy unfair because the first year class is randomly divided into four sections for grading purposes.
The group is gathering student opinions about Harvard's athletic facilities, faculty student relations, grading policy, the academic calendar and possible changes in the University's policy on credit work done at other institutions.