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A sociology professor and an English instructor who tried to buck the grading systems at Yale and Columbia have been forced to back down, at least for a while.
"To grade students is, in a sense, to treat them like products in a meat market," Tristman said, but he added that his grading policy could be taken "at least in part" as a protest against the Selective Service System and the war in Vietnam.
Cook is in the process of drawing up a set of proposals for changing the grading system at Yale.
His main proposal will be that the grading system as a creation of the faculty be eliminated and that each professor be permitted to grade the way he wants.
It is hard to be concerned about this inequity in the grading system because a student's rank really has only minimal importance. In determining admission to Dean's List and such programs as Honors Tutorial a student's rank group is consulted, but most departments are flexible enough to...