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Addressing a crowd of about 80, BSA President Brandon A. Gayle '03 called upon administrators to again display their willingness to meet with students about their concerns. Gayle and other BSA members met with administrators in February concerning remarks Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 had made about grade inflation...
...Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. ’53 has attracted a lot of attention this year for his campaign against the “evil,” as he puts it, of grade inflation. The publicity has been spurred in large measure by his theory of why grades have gone up. According to a view stated by Mansfield—most recently in an April 6 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education—there was once a Garden of Eden at Harvard in which professors gave students the grades they deserved...
...from Quantitive Reasoning to three variations on English, these overwhelmingly large classes with strange syllabi also promise cryptic grading standards and generally ill-prepared graduate students posing as teaching fellows. There are some stars in the Core, from famous poetry critic Helen H. Vendler to Shakespeare expert Marjorie Garber, Kenan professor of English...
...Gayle also played a major role in organizing the group's response to remarks made by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 in February that linked grade inflation at Harvard to the influx of black students in the 1970s...
...entire dispute is reminiscent of the mele that recently surrounded Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 when he asserted that affirmative action at Harvard caused grade inflation. Many students found nothing racist in Mansfield's claims. The Black Students Association (BSA) did, and it launched visible protests. In doing this, the BSA was well within its rights...