The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 13, 1999, Image 5

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esperate Measures
• i >1 leaders call upon their skills to help others
nd so, the
Wm
I world as
.students
ow it enters
2 tlird week of
? semester-
ig battle with
ndi ig machine
stenance,
eked -up traffic
id lafeteria-in-
JACOB
HUVAL
iced l)owel movements (hopeful-
not in that order).
y.» Much is expected of the weary
'/] adlnt. After dismounting their
/V llet tion of Cheetos crumbs and
ckels (aka: couch), without
tough energy to carry them to the
•aresi vending machine, and
adltg through the sea of humani-
tb get to class, students are ex-
?ct|d to write voluminous papers
Haling their understanding of the
tnrlection between knock-knock
kes Regis Philbin and the Pil-
irrr' plight with gout.
Desperate for passing grades,
udtnts go to any extreme,
hell ter it be bribing University
nployees, coercing leniency of
ading or posing as the professor’s
gnjficant other in order to pre-
iew tests. All of these attempts for
ighk r grades are in vain — al- .
loiigh the latter would probably
imU iarize one with exactly why
ie Professor’s nickname is “The
•anlsh Funboy.”
A liygienically and socially
eallhier alternative for students is
ie phenomenon known as Sup-
lemental Instruction (SI).
SI sessions have been seasoned
3 perfection by repeated use. The
rstBl session was conducted
hei Christopher Columbus
jot smith aught the concept of the world be-
ng round to early seafarers, whose
pn mu ittP- answers to exam questions
h lone " vere “ Boot y’ boot y’ bo °ty! ”
SI subjects have developed
s.ik mae.sw v j t ^ t j me as i-, ave the SI leaders
3,0 U] J . "P h e m s e! v e s.
packed calei ^ sen tial to the SI is leadership.
. rate guys arep n J niLls t know when to take com-
i h trouble, -nand, enforce restrictions and exe-
e too WJn\ tn ute OIX j ers without mercy. Now go
- hotidjj’s, o/rtmo J a
ies already tafe i|
iy memoty."
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Attendance
rinks'Mu
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Showing up for one of the sections
7" 31 class, so when she turned in the
in gelling 1 notes at the end of the semester, the
second section’s final time was list-
. . . j,-d incorrectly.
iple LoatSi
ROBERT HYNECEK/Thk Battalion
forth and bring back the Ruby Slip
pers! Fly, my pretties, fly !
SI leaders also need to display
the rare and valuable ability to ed
ucate, thereby showing their knack
for reaching and conveying a com
plicated idea in a way that can be
understood by any student, inter
ested or bored, asleep or awake,
loan-recipient or football scholar
ship recipient.
Most importantly, SI leaders
need to show versatility in their
skills. A genuine SI leader
should be able to convey the
content of the lecture simply,
look into the students’ blank
stares despondently, cry like a
coal-miner’s widow and waste
the night away eating chocolate.
These guidelines for SI leaders
may seem outlandish and hard to
believe. But the faithless few would
find it hard not to believe if they
were to know the secrets of SI
leader training — this is not just
nuclear research, man! This is
Bond said he believes that note
taking is personal for students.
“Some students can take sketchy
notes and get exactly what they
need, and others can’t,” Bond said.
“No two students are going to look
at a set of notes in the same way. ”
Adams said she does not trust
other people’s notes.
training to tutor a few undergradu
ates about why Oedipus Rex
should be on “Jerry Springer!”
With such a grueling training
regimen, what could the future
possibly hold for the SI session?
Blossoming students will no
longer struggle with learning the
primary colors or the alphabet and
can then concentrate on winning
the Big 12 Championship.
Even the U.S. government is
considering utilizing the SI ses
sion as an implement of covert
governmental subjugation and a
means of brainwashing the mass
es — but this writer seriously
doubts that in this day and age of
sophistication anything like that
would ever ** 1NOTNILC OT
TIMBUS !YNNUF SI DABNIS !LU-
FITUAEB SI GNIKOMS 1NOTNILC
OT TIMBUS * *
Jacob Huval is a sophomore
English major
“For some reason, the only
notes I trust are my own,”
Adams said.
Keeney-Kennicutt .said at
tendance does not bother her
as much anymore.
“My job is to teach the stu
dents that do come,” Keeney-
Kennicutt said.
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