Page 6B/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 7, 1988
Apathy
(Continued from page 2B)
cruncher tied for the rest of my life
to an HP calculator.
Besides, history had always been
my first love, and I still hoped to
find the education that I had first
come for.
There they seek the professor
with the shortest reading list and the
multiple-choice exams.
God forbid that they should have
to read more than two books, take
essay tests, or (horror of horrors)
write a paper.
As a matter of course, they gener
ally avoid real math and science
courses too.
Engineers are not alone in desir
ing curved tests.
In my second-semester Latin
class, we had a graduate instructor
from Belgium who expected us to
learn Latin and whose test reflected
that expectation.
The class did poorly on the first
exam and asked her if she would
curve the grades.
With bewilderment on her face,
she asked what a curve was. My class
mates were shocked and have ma
ligned her ever since. Poor woman!
She mistakenly thought she should
teach us something.
Vantage point
Battalion file photo
The Academic Building fits the opening at the bottom of the Ford D. ball game. Construction was held up for a while because of difficulties
Albritton Bell Tower, yielding this view to the observer. The view is with the bell shipment from France. Also, the size of the tower de-
from the west side of campus down Old Main Drive. The tower, built layed construction because it was difficult to have workers working in
in 1984, was dedicated on Oct. 6 before a Texas Tech vs. A&M foot- the same area at the same time.
I had thought that a good student
would try to take the toughest pro
fessors who would truly challenge
him. But again and again, I saw stu
dents drop a course in droves if they
had the misfortune of getting a pro
fessor who expected them to learn
something in order to pass the
course. Those students knew that
there was more to education than
book learning, while my concept of
education was apparently hopelessly
outmoded.
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In all f airness, I must contes
the desire to learn does ren^
the classroom. Students stillt;
learn the answers to the
questions of life: “What is o;
test? Is the final comprehensit f ;
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ive and well at A&M.
I discovered the same kind of stu
dents in liberal arts.
In addition to disdaining
ing, many students hate ant
those who excel. I know several
pie whose classmates have
them because their supe^
grades wrecked the class ty
Have mercy! We did not knony
a sin to do our best. Besides,%
take comfort in the fact that
would put us to shame in Pjf
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their failures, these same stm;
who hate excellence alwaysM
excuse for their own poorij
mame. Rarely have I heardj
dent confess that he earned tit
on his test because he failed tor
it was always someone else'sE
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plains the universal wish "good;,
before a test. SubconsciousL
dents know they will need it.
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cational desert at A&M for j
who want them. I cametosttJ
had been wrong to expect col;
develop) my mind. It’s not eve
portant that one may frndengis
who respect the English 1»
So what if they can readtheirc
mas.
The important thing is toge
little paper that says you’reeditl
and entitles you to a job.
I must confess. After 1 ur
light, I cheated. 1 could notl
pletely give up my ideals, soil
red a little on my own. I hop|
body minds.
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