<p>Well, see, that's the prickliness that I am talking about. I am well aware that a lot of humanities students are highly sensitive to the charge that humanities majors are easier than other majors at Berkeley, particularly the tech ones.</p>
<p>But unfortunately, it is the truth. As Professor Rine has pointed out, humanities courses really are, as a whole, graded easier than tech courses are. Obviously this isn't true for every single humanities course and every single tech course, but on the whole, it is true. You might say that this is all a bunch of smoke here, but there really is a fire also. The bottom line is that really there is a lot of truth to the charge. I know it's an uncomfortable truth, but it won't go away if we just tiptoe around it.</p>