Personally I don’t care as much about covered grades as an institution. I’m more annoyed about the lack of transparency and suddenness of the announcement. Regardless, I’m excited to see if the student body will be able to get behind an issue and effect change on campus. Given the student backlash at the end of last semester this issue may actually stimulate the generally apathetic campus.
However I will say that it’s quite hypocritical of the administration to say that “some graduate school admissions officers or employers may frown on [covered grades]” when just two years ago they swore up and down that graduate and med schools both knew about, and were fine with, the covered grades policy.