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According to House, her instructor “explicitly said she was grading down the first half of the semester to see who the ‘A’ was going to be.”
Amidst the media firestorm, many students said they felt that grading was harsher last year than in previous years.
House and many others experienced grading quotas instituted in courses such as Government 97a—the concentration’s sophomore tutorial supervised by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who has long been known as an opponent of grade inflation.
The rating for last year dropped to 3.7 overall, with only 65 percent offering an unconditional recommendation, and 18 percent claiming that “unfair grading policies” were a weakness of the course, something not mentioned in the previous CUE evaluation.
Students went so far as to create a Geocities website entitled “IHateB29,” in which students could post complaints about unfair grading.