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68 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1979)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec68 and id is 1 raw text is: HARAR LA5 RECOR America's Oldest Law School Newspaper 0978 By 1HE HARVARD tAW SCHOOL RECORD COMA11ON FEBRUARY 9, 1979 Grades Released Piecemeal It's that time of year again, and will continue to be for the next month, due to the 4-1-4 schedule. Some grades for 2Ls and 3Ls should be out by today, or early next week. Others will come out in two spurts in March. For iLs, the magic date will be sometime next week. Mary D, Upton, assistant dean and registrar, explained that her office gets grades to students about a week after they are due from the professors. That week is taken up with entering the grades on com- puter forms and records and proofreading them at least two times. Deadlines for professors vary this year, due to the 4-1-4 system. For first-year professors, the date was Feb. 6. For those professors teaching 2L and 3L fall term courses, with nothing to do in January but read bluebooks, the date was Feb. 1. For those professors who had 2L and 3L courses both fall and winter terms, grades are not due into Upton's office, until Feb. 27; winter term grades are due March 6. A few of those professors with classes both terms made the early deadline, so some extra grades will be in the first batch. On the other hand, three or four professors of upper-level classes did not make the deadline, so, if something's missing, grit your teeth and wait. (Continued on Page 12) Exams: Golden Oldies? By Tammy Jacobs The plot seemed all too familiar. At least, that's how it first ap- peared to students in Prof. Duncan Kennedy's first year Torts class, who had studied the Emanuel's commerical outline in preparation for their exam. A sample question and answer in Emanuel's was taken from an exam given by Prof. Robert Keeton in January 1975. Kennedy's ques- tion was drawn from the same place, but he had altered it some- what and had consulted with Keeton. He feels the Emanuel's sample answer did not affect his grade curve. Kennedy was not the only pro- fessor who ran into trouble involv- ing old exams during the past fi- nals periods; and the situations have raised issues concerning the advisability of reusing old fact pat- terns or short answer questions, as well as questions about the study- days mentality of Harvard Law students. Visiting Prof. Irving Younger gave an Evidence exam in which several short answer questions were similar or identical to ones given on a Cornell Law School ex- amination of several years ago. Visiting Prof. Michael Graetz re- wrote his tax exam at the last min- ute when he learned that Harvard students had gained access to an (Continued on Page 4) Pre-Christmas Exams Worth Time Pressure By Terry Keeney Don't put off until January what you can do in December seems to be the motto of some Har- vard law students and faculty after the first year of pre-Christmas fall semester exams. Students and faculty interviewed in an informal RECORD survey ex- pressed satisfaction with the experi- mental calendar which gave them a Christmas vacation free from exam worries. However, students and faculty noted that the new calendar did cause some problems. Prof. Louis Loss detected a little bit of time pressure caused by the fact that the semester was short- ened by two weeks to accom- modate December exams. Prof. William Andrews, chairman of the Committee on Legal Education, which will conduct an evaluation of the calendar, also noted that the semester was compressed. But I find that very hard to evaluate be- cause there is more material I want to get into my basic tax course that I find I don't have time for every year, said Andrews. For students too, pre-Christmas exams created time pressure, be- cause the Christmas vacation could no longer be counted on for exam preparation time. Less Procrastination I felt a crunch, said Tim O'Neill, 2L. You weren't able to put things off for as long. (Continued on Page 5) VOL, 68, NO, 1 TWENTY CENTS

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