Comments on: The Overlooked Amendment https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-overlooked-amendment/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Alsadius https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-overlooked-amendment/#comment-73644 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:41:05 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=53570#comment-73644 As a fun side note on this, Wilson’s successful campaign to get the amendment ratified earned him a slight increase to his grade – in 2017, the University of Texas retroactively changed his grade from a C to an A+.

Of note: the University of Texas does not use the grade “A+” (the normal grading scheme caps out at “A”) so this is the only A+ awarded in the history of the school. A worthy choice, I’d say.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-overlooked-amendment/#comment-73573 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:27:42 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=53570#comment-73573 I had heard of the Amendment, but I did not know the history of Gregory Wilson.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

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