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Last fall his unorthodox position became well-known when he and two other professors. Stephen J. Gould and S. Allen Counter Jr., taught Nat Sci 36, "Biological Determinism." The course was modeled as closely as possible on the uniform-grade system that Lewontin has used in his other course. Biology 152, "Population Genetics," with a few concessions to those students who, Lewontin says, "through no fault of their own--for reasons of med school or law school-have...
Lewontin admits that some people never did the reading or showed up for the lectures, but, he complains, students couldn't devote more of their time to Nat Sci 36 because they felt pressured to work hard for their other courses...
Russell Lande, a Nat Sci 36 teaching fellow, says that sections were "a bit harder to conduct because people hadn't done the reading," but adds that he is still opposed to "any kind of coercive education...
Gould, who uses a conventional grading system in his other courses, says that Nat Sci 36 could not have been totally successful because the "utopian model of social change" that it was based on is not applicable to the Harvard situation...
...brothers work at Great Atlantic Fish Co. and come to talk to him when he brings in the day's catch in the afternoon. Joe graduated from Harvard, class of '73, and started right on fishing with Louis, who used to take out sections of Nat. Sci. 27 and Bio. 122--Professor Fell's Marine Biology, courses--on field trips. Joe had planned to go to graduate school in Marine Biology, but by his Sophomore year realized that the academic life was not for him. At least not for now. He'll fish until the industry dies out--within...