In February, then-first-year law student Carol S. Steiker '82 told a cheering crowd. "The immediate objective is to abolish grades as a workable criterion for Law Review selection, and to force the Law Review to turn to a more rational means of selection."

Steiker, one of the organizers of a petition boycotting the Law Review--providing that three quarters of all 1Ls sign--apparently swallowed her idealism when the petition narrowly missed the three-quarters mark.

She opened her grades to the prestigious student journal and was elected a law review editor.

"It's certainly ironic," Steiker says. But she adds, "I saw no way that not submitting my grades could change the way the law review chooses its editors."

Besides, she points out, "almost all of us who made law review on grades signed the petition."