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Last spring, my grades included a C, C-plus and B-minus. And in light of the recent debate (News, "Mansfield To Give Two Grades," Feb. 5), I am forced to wonder what I did to anger the grade inflation gods who supposedly consider Harvard their Mount Olympus. In a school that hands out A's, I must have done something drastically wrong to get these grades...
...truth of the matter is that grade inflation does not exist at Harvard the way Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 or others claim. I'll be the first to admit that yes, it does exist. Quite frankly, I am lucky that the C-plus mentioned above was not a D or F--I was definitely at the extreme left side of the histogram in that class...
...board member of the Black Students Association, I was naturally shocked and appalled by the accusation that Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 made two weeks ago in the Boston Globe. To blame grade inflation at Harvard on the "influx of black students" is simply preposterous...
Rudenstine, on Thursday, publicly denied Mansfield's statements linking grade inflation to the increase in black students at Harvard in the 1970's, while defending freedom of speech...
...Mansfield declined to comment for this article...