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Last year, when grade inflation was an operatic solo that Harvey “C-minus?? Mansfield sang to an empty theater, I promised myself that I wouldn’t write about the topic. Why validate the argument through response? Why try to use logic with a man who found it sound and reasonable to claim that manliness is the world’s most admirable virtue and that the introduction of minority students leads to a downward GPA spiral...
...then Lower-is-Better-Larry hopped over from the Treasury and suddenly “C-minus?? had an audience. Ready to demonstrate that he wasn’t only concerned with inflation of the monetary sort, Lower took the took the bull by the horns (although some would later claims that Lower became the bull himself...
With Lower’s backing, the debate about the fringes of the bell curve was no longer at the fringes of the University. This year everyone’s been talking curves and credentials as “C-minus?? has happily faded to the background with a smug post-proselytizing grin. Indeed, on April 18, the University waved the bureaucratic equivalent of a giant red flag—an Educational Policy Committee (ECP) report detailing the problems of grade inflation and suggesting ways to ensure that, in the future, every Harvard college student will graduate with...
...just because the University president has stolen “C-minus??s” stump speech is that reason to give the vacuous hysteria over grade inflation any more credence? Lower may have one-upped “C-minus?? in the competition to offend minority students and faculty, but he certainly hasn’t one-upped him in the competition to provide a reasonable explanation of why the nation’s most elite University should expend time and energy trying to worsen its students’ grades. Indeed, with grade inflation...
...instance, Murphy has gone away from his penchant for running trick plays. Aside from last week’s fake punt in the first quarter, Murphy’s game plan has been as conservative as Harvey “C-minus?? Mansfield...