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~rimshaw Friday, February 11.1977 Editorial: Letters to the Editor ' Convocation Day Questions Self Schedules Exams We note that Samuel Magill, in htsConvocatjon-day address entitled Dear Editor: 3. The problem of having to wait 'elso.. since this practice has in- creased the work of that office :i~~I:I;~~f ~;~~:~:tf:~a~~~:::~~P:!hM;~:~~:~r!~~' ~~~~e~~~a~ Please let me set down a few ~~~~~ha~l ~~~heo~x~':s ~:r!=.:~~ considerably. (both elementary education and literature, both business ad- ~c::.~:l::~!.:i~~~~.give self- before I can start reading them. (l I'm speaking for myself ana am ministration and straight economics). Magill Indicated that for too long gtve essay exams and grade on a not sure that the same problems educators have determined that right and proper education (hence a comparative basis.) That is, would apply to other courses- supposed 'pure Hberallearnlng' emphasis) but that liberal arts colleges 1: I The d di[.ficu_lty of Planningd_ there's simply too much reading exams. I suppose I could live with must also "listen to the world" (and so also bepractlcal). writ ng, up tcaung the exam an and too little time for an efficient the last two problems, but number g Is It possible that neither theoretical or practical learning Is or has then I stuffing" ••nrid organiz,in t: job. 1 has to be solved because I do not been the case at WMC because both require Independence and student enve opes-a u ng the ast ew want to rush through the planning of an exam at a timethat is already ~~~::~ ~::~~lt~~nO~~:~e~,i~e=~:e:~~:7~:u~:~~~~~: t:ob~e:~~c~;n~~ ~,~s :~!~p~:m~~~ a e~~_;f-7!: In short, I see the problem as too rushed. . I hope these comments are constructive, and while I have this space let me add a couple of (l g~f~;g~i~.~~~~~,~~f~l~~?5~~1~:~~?:~i,~~~i~;;~!i#;·oJ;!#f~~::gff;::~:'~~ft~e~rlh~::e:,'.:s;s~~,~:;c~o~u:,t.~)~meta:Ck:e~ hope) constructive comments on ~hm Wright's recent editorial relf:~;::S~bl~e~:!:sd~~~~I~~ ::~MCis not the case because It entails finish college committee business. different forms of the exam. I'm about educational malpractice. he seemed First, risk and adult choice of human values rather than antithetical cern- t02~I!,:ea~:~~:i::f~!:e:h~t:I~:~:~ ~::::::!:t~~:i::p~~~e::~:s~~ student as a passive to depict the I consumer. ~~:~~:dt~o~r~adce:i~;dJ~~~II~~~ ~;ee~ii~~n 1~~~~~~?t:~~~:~esa~~nmo~Yt~: end. If anything new happens or I hope it can come forth because I think I'd have to stop teaching begins to focus during the last . like the concept of self-scheduled before I could accept that :Oi~~t:~~o~~h:c~~~t ~C::~lf~~~a~:~~~ed~~p:~~:n:ec~~~~e~se~~ _ :e::~ uI ".e.",.e,'.malreadY having exams I'm sure the Registrar's assumption. Education is a two- faculty, administration, and national leaders _to define the worldlor us. p offIce would consider better ways way street. Accountability is a two- To define our own world, and so to assume responsibility for it, would JO%% Critique ~a;~~~!~Ae~:::~~~~.ducatiOniSa appear to be the bests of any educetlon . either practical or theoretical. And, of course, a flip' side to our Identity as a "liberal arts college," Is Dear Editor: that suggested by the speakers In McDaniel lounge Tuesday evening .. It is very disgruntling to read a "filler numbers to give the band CO~I~:n~du!at~::~t~~y ~~~ : that of a racist, sexist, dehumanizing Institution. Proof needed? Take a newspaper commentary written by an