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Group Memory
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Robert Hawkins, JMC '69Excerpted from a posting to the JMC forum at Yahoo Groups |
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I was a member of the first group to come to JMC (1965-1969). When it opened it really was an experiment with lots of intellectual excitement and some massive bad ideas as well (such as everyone taking 8 credits of a foreign language regardless of how much in high school, or the one-size-fits-all geology course the first quarter). But the point is that JMC, at least initially, was full of people who self-selected for intellectual risk. When the first group was ready to graduate, a large proportion qualified for Phi Beta Kappa, and the chapter and the university as a whole reacted with disbelief, thinking our grades were inflated by our weird, soft courses. The Dean's office did an analysis showing that our grades in non-JMC courses were slightly higher than those for JMC courses, so that huge group all made Phi Beta Kappa.
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