Confession: I am making a post during class (ironically, while we discussed Ritalin). Explanation: I wanted to write this down before all of us, with our short and degraded memories, forget Eben's explanation.

We WILL have a third assignment. The question is about how to evaluate/grade the third assignment. There is a rule that all electives base the majority of the grade (over 50%) on an anonymously-graded assignment. We can chose to do away with this rule entirely and submit a third assignment that will be graded with our names attached, we can choose to violate the spirit of the rule but not the letter, or we can chose to follow the rule to a T. The decision process will happen in two stages.

Stage One: We vote on whether to do away with the rule altogether. This process will happen by email to Eben within the next 24 hours. If you want to get rid of the rule, you don't have to email. If you want to veto the rule, you DO have to email. Your votes will be anonymous. Complete abandonment of the rule must be 100% unanimous.

If we abandon the rule, our third assignment will be graded as our others have been - with our names attached, and with individualized feedback based on who we are.

Stage Two: If there is a veto of the rule abandonment, then we will vote on how we want to follow the rule. We can either:

• Follow the letter of the rule but not the spirit by having our third assignment graded anonymously, but agreeing that Eben will give us all the same grade. The third assignment will thus fall out of our final grades because we all got the same thing, and our actual "grade" will be based on our individualized assignments.

• Follow the letter of the rule by having our third assignment graded anonymously, with all of us getting different grades.

This second vote will be a majority-rules vote.

-- MolissaFarber - 02 Apr 2009