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we do know that all over, all over the country, almost grades have been gradually rising over the past several years. But report published here today says the grade point average for SAn Francisco State College over the last two semesters, which includes the time of the strike

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and disruption here was very high 3.6 for the spring semester of 1969 3.22 for the fall semester of 1968 4 is an A college president. Dr S. I. Hayakawa said it's a bit too early to reach any conclusions based on this report? Yeah, Dr Hayakawa says,

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a complete and definitive study of the grades and what they mean may be ready in about two months. Battle brian for eyewitness news at SAN Francisco State College. Sure that we have some special conditions at SAn Francisco State College is a result of the disturbance to

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the last two years, especially last year and some real irregularities and unevenness of the application of our grading policy. Does this report in any way indicate that faculty members sympathetic to the strike gave out? Unrealistic lee high grades during the strike. This is one of our

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suspicions. We can't prove it yet until the greater more thoroughly analyzed. What do you do if such is proved? Well, of course, obviously, then there's some kind of very serious malpractice involved and we would be prepared to act upon that. But let's not jump the gun

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on this. Let's find about the facts. First. Does the report in any way indicate that there's some validity to the questions raised by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges as to the integrity of the grading? Well, that's exactly what we're trying to find out. Is

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it not? That's what that's what the survey is being made for is I believe one point of the report is that there are mores given here than any other grade. Ah, is that abnormally high for a college institution? I'm not sure that that's the case. That

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seems to be the case. But if it is, you see, we want to know why the statistics seem to indicate that an awful lot of A's around bees. This is one of the things we want to investigate. Obviously in some, in some courses with advanced students

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with special admissions and so on, you're going to have a lot of A's and B's anyway. But how does it come out in this particular way? This is why I say the purpose of collecting all the data is to make this analysis, to find out where

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things are going wrong?