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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...
...caused by the influx of black students in the 1970s. He even stated publicly to the Boston Globe that he has no concrete evidence other than that of his own "personal knowledge." Are we therefore supposed to take his word for it? Given Mansfield's nickname of "C-minus Mansfield," I am sure that any student in his class who tried the same trick would be failed immediately...
...mean to endorse one type of undergraduate experience over any other. We cannot ignore, however, the fact that grades evaluate just the academic component of our college years. And the ever-agonizing drop from an A-minus to a B-plus or a B is not significant enough to distinguish those who devote the majority of their waking hours to organizations, community service and, dare I say, campus publications from those who immerse themselves in academics. Transcripts should reflect--and reward--the efforts of those who labor over their classes and, as a result, perform exceptionally well. After all, extracurricular...
...precious metals and other reusable parts, it's still tough to make any money recycling PCs. Minus the cost of processing, the average used system is worth a measly $6 in raw materials, according to electronics recycler Envirocycle in Hallstead, Pa. The monitor is worth just $2.50. When IBM announced its consumer-PC recycling program last fall, it decided to have the carcasses shipped not to its 700,000-sq.-ft. recycling center in Endicott (where it mines corporate PCs for parts) but to an independent recycler 30 miles away. The reason: "Typically all that low-end stuff...
...public assessments of students, and we encourage professors who agree with him on grade inflation to adopt a similar approach. Grades are used as a measure not only in individual courses, but also across courses and academic careers. A future graduate school or employer finding a Mansfield-inflicted C-minus on an applicant's transcript will assume that the students' work in the course was uniquely deficient, not that the professor was uniquely honest. A lonely giver of C's, like a voice crying in the wilderness, will hardly end the problem (if there is one) of inflated grades...