Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!norskog From: norskog@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: Re: Grades -- do they help or hurt?? - (nf) Message-ID: <2145@fortune.UUCP> Date: Sun, 1-Jan-84 19:02:14 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2145 Posted: Sun Jan 1 19:02:14 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Jan-84 02:49:38 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 19 #R:psuvax:-38700:fortune:2900001:000:449 fortune!norskog Jan 1 14:27:00 1984 I went to U.C. at Santa Cruz, where we didn't have grades.* I would advocate this approach: everybody gets the same grade, unless they flunk. This should encourage a little co-operation, among grade-vipers. Lance Norskog Fortune Systems {hpda,harpo,sri-unix,amd70,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!norskog *(Or frats/soros, pro sports teams, very much grant-oriented graduate work, or any other of the disgusting evils of higher education today)