THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF GRADES. The SCSU Scholars raise the caution flag about a new service called Pick-A-Prof, which appears to be a convex combination of a day runner, Blackboard, and the student grapevine about who is the easy grader. The Scholars suggest that such information might in fact encourage self-selection: "But other students may look at the grades and other info on Pick-a-Prof along with the other online course evaluations and sort themselves into the classes they want and will do best in. If I did manage to have a class like that, rather than people who took my courses ill-prepared and unsuspecting of my workload requirements, maybe they'd all take A's. Wouldn't that be nice for a change?" Indeed. Furthermore, the system appears to be sufficiently open that personnel departments at major employers would be able to use it. Currently, students submit transcripts and the like which provide scant information about exactly how many other students have earned high grades in the same courses, majors, or universities. With a little research (personnel departments, you may ask me how. For a fee I'll tell you. I'm expensive) knowledge about the sources of inflated grades well might become more public, and more systematic.