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  • The Western Carolinian Page 5 Thursday, November 10, 1988 Corner con'tfrom pg. 4 severe problems, there are many inpatient facilities that treat eating disorders. Many people recover with the help of self-help groups such as Overeaters Anonymous. Counseling may also be beneficial in understanding and coping with the other issues involved. For more information about help that is available, call 227-7469, or come by the Counseling and Psychological Services Office in 114 Scott. COMIC RELIEF: Ready Eor Glasnot WELCOME PARENTS! If Have a fun Parents' Day- Don't miss out on all the excitement! From the Western Carolinian Staff by Glenn Erickson Because of his proclivity for making people uncomfortable, the philosopher was invited by the Editorof the Faculty Forum to compose some remarks about the manner in which he, like Socrates before him, corrupts the youth of the community. He preferred, however, to fulfill the equality Socratic mission of irritating the elders, but because he did so too well, his effort was rejected without the opportunity for revision, which is normally standard procedure for invited pieces. The Editor told him he could go publish it elsewhere, which is what he is doing here. 1. Opinion: At the university level, objective and essay tests—not to mention informal writing—have no place in the teaching of the Humanities, and very little in that of the Social Sciences. Caption (from the Chronicle): "Professor Smith, Who's going to grade all those % # ? @ ! * papers, is hardly a professional response to a study recommending writing across the curriculum." Hypothesis: Although the writing requirement in general education courses is liable to be spurned by professors who cannot be bothered to take the time to grade written assignments, were an accounting of composition assignments distributed among the faculty, there will be an abrupt rise in the number of instructors going home with briefcases full of papers to mark. 2. Oft-heard allegation: Some schools and departments attract students by means of awarding unduly high marks to their majors. Remedy: Publish the statistics' already collected on grade averages in all departments and schools. This measure alone would exert a moral pressure toward standardizing levels of grade inflation. 3. Pet peeve thinly disguised as a timely ethnic slur: I have heard more than on professor of Germanic extraction attribute the fact that the clocks on campus keep legal time just often enough to be treacherous to a fundamental lack of discipline on the part of that ethnic group that predominates this area. Indignant call for justice : The administration could believe this defamation of the Patagoni ans by investing the resources necessary to regulated the campus' unruly timepieces. 4. Joke: Two Western students are discussing what to give a third for a present. The first offers, "Why don't we give him a book." The second thinks it over and replies, "No, he already has a book," (N.B. sometimes this joke continues, "Yes, but he's already colored it in.") Comment: The book rental system means that students do not buy most of their course books and hence have little incentive to develop personal libraries. Rumor going the rounds: Although the book rental system does not really save the students any money over against the standard system in which they can resell their books back to the bookstore, the system is retained because it is a good talking point to the parents of prospective students. 5. Midweek In-class joke (adapted from the Chronicle!: One Western student says to another, "Man, these Wednesday classes sure are a dray!" The second student replies, "Yeah, they ruin both ends of the weekend." Recommendation: Send a letter to parents strongly discouraging the practice of students going off the grounds on weekends on the grounds that it reduces study time, or require scholarship students to sign an on-campus attendance sheet so many Saturdays of each semester. 6. Observation: On the average, non-traditional-age and foreign students are much better motivated than traditional-age or native ones, and add the invaluable factor of experience to the classroom. Recommendation: Recruit them even if they can't play hoops. 7. Speaking of boots: What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick. Conversation overheard: "Are you all professors at West- em?" "Well, we teach there..." Recommendation: Hire more "professors," and reward the ones who stay. (Professors in the relevant sense appreciated that teaching is not an occupation or trade but rather a profession.) 8. Observation: WCU students lack many elements of general culture, but perhaps none more than a grasp of Geography. Suggestions: The map room might provide sets of freestanding maps for professors to use in their classrooms, or administer a geography achievement test to the students on a voluntary basis, awarding cash prizes to those with the best scores. 9. Since Cullowhee lacks watering holes, there is hardly and place for a professor to go with students to engage in intellectual conservation. (The odd "Pub Nite" does not answer to this description.) Proposal: The university could provide a venue for intellectual and social encounters, such as a coffee or teahouse, even, or rather especially, if such a venture cannot support itself through revenues. 10. A vexed question: The question of teaching vs. research/ outside service is not doing Western any good at all. Those on each side of the question have assured me in private conversations that those on the other side typically fail to live up to their professional obligations. My impression is that many instructors have convinced themselves that they can be good teachers without seriously trying to keep up with the substance of their fields, and that Western's role as a comprehensive institution releases them from an obligation to contribute outside the classroom. On the one hand, it does seem unlikely that if a professor remains actively engaged in scholarship his teaching will become the positive evil to himself and others that it might otherwise be after years of service at a redbrick school. On the other hand, there ate, if we can believe student reports, some excellent teachers who ling ago relinquished any scholarly aspirations. Needless to say, most of those who tell such a story about themselves are liable to be hoist on their own canard. l*\ Coach Waters, n n H n a n a thanks for the\ memories! 'Best of j Lucfi against* MarshatC. 'We're " Behindyou! from j the 'Western Caro- n Cininan staff! t I WCU J RESERVE ttJJM)fiKJJWij*»^*JJ*B*JJH*JJ^ mm llOriPiL xi§» « ^ ■x-,% t *v\ -? ■^ re-B^tp-^g-^gW BHI &s ^yiiil^M K»«£::::':i*Ss£: ''■'■■ V'N BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THIS GUY IS IN CLASS. Excitement and adventure is the course description, and Army ROTC is the name. It's the one college elective that builds your self-confidence, develops your leadership potential and helps you take on the challenges of command. There's no obligation until your junior year, so there's no reason not to try it out right now. ARMY ROTC THE SMARTEST COLLEGE COURSE YOU CAN TAKE. FIND OUT MORE. CONTACT: MAJOR FRENCH AT THE JORDAN-PHILLIPS FIELDHOUSE 227-7438/7439
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