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At the faculty meeting, the first resolution offered was to "re-affirm grading." That this was immediately tabled does not mean that the Columbia faculty objects to the granting of grades. The faculty members simply felt no obligation to re-affirm something they had never challenged. Eager to move on...
"The absurdity of the students' solution for the requirement or grades mirrors the absurdity of the grading system at Yale," Cook said Friday in a letter to Dean May.
In the same letter, Cook called for a full-scale discussion of the grading requirements by the faculty.
"It seems to me it is time to eliminate a lot of the nonsense involved with class ranking and grading," he said. "A teacher should have the right to teach as he sees fit, whether the content of the course or the way it is taught is involved," the letter...
"The reason for our protest is to question the educational value of the grading system as a whole at Yale," he said.