Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!dykimber From: dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity Message-ID: <4843@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 13 Dec 88 01:58:16 GMT References: <1131@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <1887@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <42@microsoft.UUCP> <4813@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <15406@joyce.istc.sri.com> <9157@smoke.BRL.MIL> <911@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Reply-To: dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 15 In article <911@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gsh7w@astsun1.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes: >Doug Gwyn writes: >#I don't see any ethical problem with posting grades by name. It's >#just a fact, not a judgement. I mean, who but Mary Smith cares what >#grade she gets? > >Would you like the entire school know that you failed (for example) >German last semester? Also, in schools such as Princeton, where the professor doesn't know who is using the pass/fail option, it can be embarrassing if everyone knows you got a C in the easiest course in the University, but only you know that it was reported as a P. -Dan