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When students held a "study-in" at the Law School Library to protest grading in 1969, Bok was called in at 12:30 a.m. to deal with the situation. After ordering coffee and donuts, Bok walked into the library, climbed on atable, and said, "I want to thank you all...
the elimination of the mediancurve grading policy by individual instructors.
Revolution hit the classroom yesterday as the students in Social Sciences 125 voted not to listen to Arthur MacEwan's lecture, to struggle against the University grading system, and to plan future action without the Sectionmen present.
In his 1969 Report. Sizer added, "When we contemplate changing courses and the grading system, we cannot proceed incrementally. A single radical change is needed, for all the various pieces fit inextricably together."
On the tape one graduate student in the English department described a letter she received from a professor commenting on her paper: "I had difficulty in grading this paper because I don't like women but I made an effort to forget that as I read this paper."