Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present grading system encourages alienation and a sense of hostility. The first-year system fosters...
...present system at the Law School encourages us to compete, to score points on each other, rather than to communicate and work in cooperation with one another. cessive and sometimes ruthless competition. Everyone is taking the same courses and competing for the same positions and grades. One person's success depends upon the failure of many others. Competition is a reality in our lives, now and in the future, but the competition at the Law School is extraordinary. It is an institutionalized competition which many of us did not bargain for when we made our decision to study...
...changes in the current system must retain bases of evaluation which allow employers to make substantive judgments of students. Convenience to employers, however, should not determine the educational policies of the Law School...
...current system of selecting members for the honoraries is arbitrary, to say the least. What is the justification for assuming that the twenty-five top performers on first-year exams are those most interested in and best suited to writing for a scholarly journal or that those who score a few points lower should prepare Ames cases? Nor is it clear why grades should be deemed the sole measure of competency for most places in Legal...
...establish academic and social hierarchies which reign over the following two years and beyond. Thus, grades become fixed in the minds of many as the most important part of their law school careers. This is an unfortunate and unintended aspect of grading, but it is inherent in the present system...