VOL. XV, NO. 7
FEBRUARY 8, 1974
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
I would like to dedicate this letter mostly to the faculty portion of this school. I am both regretful and grateful for the results of my finals.
I am regretful for the job I did. It was very poor. Maybe I should have studied more or asked more questions. I could have, but the point is I didn't. I'm sorry I let you down. Though in a way, a few teachers have let me down too. You gave me long tests during the finals. Maybe that's the idea, huh? But sitting in a seat in a stuffy classroom for more than an hour is really very tiring.
You gave me these long run on sentences that had to be broken up and redone in our own words to be understood. There were big words irrelevant to the course, something you've picked up in a college dictionary somewhere. You put undue guilt feelings upon me before the finals. Telling how hurt you would be if I didn't do well. I can understand this because I wouldn't want to teach for a whole semester and have no one learn anything. I'd be hurt too, but how much can a student be expected to remember?
On the other hand, I'm grateful for the experience of seeing for one, what sort of finals you have and what answers I should have learned to get by after my school years. Secondly, I've learned things that I'll carry with me throughout my life, realizing that I must face tests and that I shouldn't meet them head on yet not shy around them.
I would like to dedicate this letter mostly to the faculty portion of this school. I am both regretful and grateful for the results of my finals.
I am regretful for the job I did. It was very poor. Maybe I should have studied more or asked more questions. I could have, but the point is I didn't. I'm sorry I let you down. Though in a way, a few teachers have let me down too. You gave me long tests during the finals. Maybe that's the idea, huh? But sitting in a seat in a stuffy classroom for more than an hour is really very tiring.
You gave me these long run on sentences that had to be broken up and redone in our own words to be understood. There were big words irrelevant to the course, something you've picked up in a college dictionary somewhere. You put undue guilt feelings upon me before the finals. Telling how hurt you would be if I didn't do well. I can understand this because I wouldn't want to teach for a whole semester and have no one learn anything. I'd be hurt too, but how much can a student be expected to remember?
On the other hand, I'm grateful for the experience of seeing for one, what sort of finals you have and what answers I should have learned to get by after my school years. Secondly, I've learned things that I'll carry with me throughout my life, realizing that I must face tests and that I shouldn't meet them head on yet not shy around them.
Sure, school and finals teach me to cope with things I know I'll face later; death, sickness, wars, and maybe poverty. I'm grateful for the chance. for this chance to better prepare myself for everyday life, helping me to face and cope with failure -no one succeeds all the time - to have a little more faith and a little less pride in things I can do. I hope I am speaking for other students as well as myself in this letter.
Name Withheld
Dear Editor:
Members of the faculty have been greatly enforcing our smoking rules lately, while there are a few more rules they should be enforcing also. It is a student's choice if he chooses to smoke or not, and students should be able to do so if they wish. The faculty has been enforcing these smoking rules, while more important rules are going unenforced. One of the rules that is not being enforced is preventing the stealing of locks and books. I know of many students who have had things stolen and had to buy new materials. I think the faculty should be enforcing such a rule as not stealing, instead of a rule like smoking, which affects only the student who smokes, while stealing affects all our students.
Name Withheld
Name Withheld
Dear Editor:
Members of the faculty have been greatly enforcing our smoking rules lately, while there are a few more rules they should be enforcing also. It is a student's choice if he chooses to smoke or not, and students should be able to do so if they wish. The faculty has been enforcing these smoking rules, while more important rules are going unenforced. One of the rules that is not being enforced is preventing the stealing of locks and books. I know of many students who have had things stolen and had to buy new materials. I think the faculty should be enforcing such a rule as not stealing, instead of a rule like smoking, which affects only the student who smokes, while stealing affects all our students.
Name Withheld
