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A group of second-year law students has renewed the controversy over grade reform at the Law School by issuing a proposal which calls for a completely optional grading system for all three years.
Last Spring, pressure by first-year students favoring a mandatory pass-fail system for the first year moved the faculty to approve an optional grading system under which students could choose between pass-fail, a four category system, or the old nine category system.
The Committee also endorsed the abolition of letter grading in favor of a complete satisfactory/no credit plan. In recognition of what the subsequent faculty legislation called the "considerable risks involved for the student who wants to enter graduate or professional school, were grades to be eliminated entirely at this time...
The Maeder Report did not meet with universal approval. One faction of the faculty opposed the emphasis put on the student's "self-realization" in the statement of educational principles, which followed closely the Magaziner formulation. Another faction thought the MOT proposal too ambiguous. The managing editor of the Brown...
The first, and most important of these questions, was about the purposes of undergraduate education. "Education for the undergraduate," Brown's Faculty decided, should foster both "the intellectual and personal growth of the individual student." To cap the student's intellectual growth, Brown retained the concentration requirement. To encourage the...