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Discuss “Presidential Perspectives”

Hey Carnegie Mellon,

The main objectives of the Weinstock/Jain administration this past week were the new exploration of the CMU5 Mystery Issue (www.cmu5.com) and the proposed +/- grading system.

With regard to the Mystery Issue, we saw Evan Osheroff, chairman of the Senate Academic Affairs Committee, and Guangzu Gao, a fellow committee member, take tremendous initiative in researching our peer institutions’ policies. At MIT, Johns Hopkins, and Brown, first-year undergraduates are allowed a semester of pass/fail grading in order to adapt to the rigors of collegiate classes and their varying grading scales.

As a student government, we feel that adopting a similar policy at Carnegie Mellon would help integrate new students into our educational...

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