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49 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1969)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec49 and id is 1 raw text is: 49RAR 4AW 4RECORD VOL. 49 NO. 1 SEPTEMSER 18. 1969 TWENTY CENTS Ls Given Option One-Third Choose Pass-Fail (Editor's Note: the following is a complete copy of the measures voted by the faciity on May 13 and 15.) 1. Throughout the three years of law study, and particularly in the first year, there should be greater diversification of opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate their capacities and growth. a. In order to further this gen- eral goal, there should be greater variation of method and material in law school classes and course examinations and increased and more diversified opportunities dur- By Michael Lurey Student support for a question- naire of law firms which inter- view at Harvard is being sought by a group of law students who worked in Washington, D.C. this summer with Ralph Nader. The immediate purpose of the questionnaire, according to Mark Green, 3L, and one of the spon- sors of the questionnaire, is to get law students to think about what law firms do and could be doing. It is also hoped that the question- naire will give ideas to students for questions to ask interviewers, Green added. ing the academic year for a student to practice legal skills and obtain criticism and evaluation of his per- formance. b. Without abandoning a common system of evaluation among all in- structors at least for year.end examinations, individual instructors may wish to develop modes of evaluation beyond the common sys- tem. c. It is intended that the faculty generally participate in the imple- mentation of this objective of di- versification throughout the school's program. The Continuing Commit- (Continued on Page 2) According to the petition ac- companying the questionnaire, Green, Mike Haroz, 3L, and Andra Hotchkiss, 2L, argue that ... . as future employees of and con- sumers of law firms, we have a right to know both their internal operations and philosophical bases, The questionnaire deals with such social and political topics as hiring policy and support of polit- ical issues, asks how much volun- teer work is done by the firm and whether law professors are asked to recruit for them, asks for the firm's opinion on grading reform and whether such reform would (Continued on Page 4) By Lawrence Gartner As the result of measures voted by the faculty last May granting first year students two optional grading systems - one of them pass-fail - in addition to the standard nine category grading system used for the second and third year classes, almost half of the 1Ls chose one of the new options and about one-third chose to be graded by the pass-fail sys- tem. Out of last year's 538 member first year class, 179 chose the pass-fail option; 75 chose a sys- tem of high, satisfactory, low, or fail; and 57 chose the standard nine grades option. The 227 stu- dents who did not choose between the three methods of recording grades were automatically graded according to the standard nine categories. The options were the result of measures voted by the faculty on May 13 and 15 of last semester. Before that, the faculty's Special Committee on Examinations, Grading and Related Matters (the Keeton Committee) made its final report to the faculty. Both the Committee and the fac- ulty measures were in response to demands from a substantial portion of the first year class that a pass-fail grading system be in- stituted combined with periodic evaluation of student performance by professors. Last year a group of 1Ls issued a 27 page proposal outlining reasons for a revalua- (Continued on Page 3) Text of Faculty Measures Law Firm Queries Advocated )- 70

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