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...think in general the student body is pretty reasonable and we recognize that grade inflation is an issue that many Universities have to deal with, including ours,” Undergraduate Student Government President Leslie-Bernard Joseph wrote in an e-mail. “What concerns students most are those instances where we feel we are graded down, especially unfairly, in the name of grade deflation...
...Joseph noted that some students particularly take issue with the possibility that professors may see the 35 percent number as a rule rather than a recommendation...
...understanding, the new grading policy is supposed to set guidelines and goals for professors, not hard-line quotas that only 35 percent of each precept can receive A’s,” Joseph said. “We don’t have a problem not getting A’s we don’t deserve. But it is intensely frustrating to work hard all semester, for an A, only to get a B+ be all semester, for an A, only to get a B+ because some professors believe the guidelines to, in fact, be a quota...
...Staff writer Joseph M. Tartakoff can be reached at tartakof@fas.harvard.edu...
...five Democrats opposing Roberts’ nomination were Senators Joseph R. Biden of Delaware, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Dianne Feinstein of California, Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 of Massachusetts, and Charles E. Schumer ’71 of New York...