Undergraduate Grades

In my reader, I saw the Daily Princetonian reported on a recent Daily Chronicle editorial (the Duke University student paper) on grade inflation.  I thought perhaps Val's time had finally come to have his ideas implemented at Duke, but but this particular Chronicle editorial was just the latest in a long-term discussion on grades -- search on grade inflation and you get results going back to at least 1997, when Val proposed the achievement index and was shot down by fearful humanities professors.