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I n the following weeks, students will find park
ing spots are becoming more available, and the
line for the snack machines is short enough so
students can actually grab a beverage before class.
Many students will also discover empty seats in
the computer labs, so it will be easier to check
their e-mail.
The number of students on campus dwindles as
the semester progresses and students at Texas A&M
are inducted into one of the lesser known, but just
as important tradition of cutting class.
Omar Hinojosa, a senior agricultural economics
major, said skipping class is often dependent on the
size of the class.
“1 tend to skip more in larger classes because
the professor doesn’t know you from the next
guy,” he said. “In a small class, if you skip, the
prof will ask you the next time he or she sees you
where you were.”
Jordan Adams, a junior general studies major,
said it is easier to skip in big classes.
“It’s much easier in a big class because the pro
fessor doesn’t even know you are gone,” she said.
Many professors on campus try to keep their
classes full by giving the students an incentive
to attend.
Dr. Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt, associate director
of first-year chemistry programs and a chemistry se
nior lecturer, said attendance used to drop off dras
tically, often falling to 40 percent, before she was
allowed to move away from a set curriculum and
make personal additions to it?*
“1 found it very depressing,” she said. “As a
teacher, you take it personally when the students
aren’t there.”
Keeney-Kennicutt decided to add unan
nounced quizzes throughout the semester and
has increased her average attendance to between
80 and 90 percent.
“Quizzes keep students in class long enough to
see that attending class will help them,” she said.
Adams said she likes professors who use quizzes
as incentives.
“I actually like it when professors use quizzes
because I need a reason to attend,” she said. “I get
better grades that way. 1 guess 1 am just one of those
people who needs others to keep checks on me.”
Jon Bond, a political science professor, does not
offer quizzes as an incentive for his students to
come because he said it would take up too much of
his lecture time in a class with 260 students. So in
stead he said he likes to make classes interesting for
the students.
“I work hard to make the classes worthwhile for
the students,”'he said.
Hinojosa said interesting classes make it easier
for him to make it to class.
“1 try to make it to the class when 1 like the prof
and he or she makes the class interesting,” Hino
josa said. “If the prof really tries to get the class in
volved, the students are more apt to be relaxed and
learn better, in addition to increasing attendance.”
Adams said lectures that are taught basically
from the textbook keep her from attending class.
“Usually, lectures that come straight from the
book discourage me from going .to class,”
Adams said.
Hinojosa said missing class has not affected his
grades because he does not do it often.
“When 1 do miss, it is usually a large class
and there are places like 4.0 & Go and Supple
mental Instructions that allow you to catch up
on the material.”
Nick Reeves, a junior kinesiology major, said the
times he has skipped really did not hint his grades.
“I thought it was kind of funny that I only went
to POLS 206 like five times all semester, and I made
a B in that class,” he said.
Michael Oriowski, a junior construction science
major, said he would feel guilty about missing class
often because he is afraid of getting left behind.
“I feel guilty about not showing up, and 1 don’t
want to miss anything,” he said.
Although many students take advantage of pro
grams like Notes-N-Quotes to cover the material
they miss, some professors do not allow the note
taking services in their classroom.
Bond said he does not allow Notes-N-Quotes
into his classroom because of past mixups. He
said that one year, he had back-to-back classes,
and the note taker from Notes-N-Quotes was only
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