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The Committee on Educational Policy has voted to reject a Social Sciences 125 petition that grading requirements be removed from the course.
MacEwan said he thought the purpose had already been served in part, since the petition had aroused general interested in the issue of grading.
Jerome Kagan, professor of Developmental Psychology and a member of the CEP, said yesterday that the Soc Sci 125 petition "was not on rational or intellectual grounds a very strong case." Kagan said, "The pressure of evalution helps some students to come to insights which they wouldn't have done...
The Soc Sci 125 petition for the abolition of grades states that "grades promote acquiescence and conformity among students and exempt teachers from the necessity of being relevant, interesting and well prepared in their classes." The entire enrollment of the course endorsed the proposal that grades be abolished.
His petition had argued that the court was, in effect, granting legal immunity to anyone who was bugged in the course of espionage or counterespionage investigations. Indeed, he added, the decision might even "point the way for the well-advised person to obtain such immunity by simply making a telephone...