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Show t¥¥ Feb. 25, 2008 OurView SURE rrs COP trw. AboutllS BUS STOP Editor in Chief j? Keep evaluations short and sweet © Seth R. Hawkins £>• News Editor as a public Servicem Arie Kirk Assistant News Editor Alison Baugh THIS .REMINDER Features Editor Brittny Goodsell Jones A proposal will be made at USU shortly INSTRUCTIONS concerning teacher evaluations. We all CUPANPSAVMNVIAUETCR know what they look like: the two-sided, p\]fl££. COM. JUUf AMP A06U9T, blue bubble sheets with a million questions to Wti\ * W FIND YOJRSELJF ABOUT To answer. A shortened version of this teachCOMPLAIN AEOOT THE HEAT, R&VCVE er evaluation form wilt be proposed by the CARTOON AMP V10N. ScOti, 1/flU M l Faculty Evaluation Committee to the Faculty 9 emepui, P^R TO HEAT, \T$ Senate. They want to have fewer questions, mostly because a majority of USU professors think the current forms are too long. And we agree. Letters to Sure, the 15-minute break from a class lecthe editor • ture to fill out evaluations is great for students, A public forum but the Faculty Evaluation Committee is right about needing a change to the length of the much dross among all forms test. I may be disgusted with Popular fiction of evaluation. If the new form is put into effect, media. That applies to those who feel that screamboth fiction and nonfiction. ing and waving signs on the students will have to answer only 10 questions. worthwhile streets is the only way to get Less is best, we say. , Adam Vanderwerf things accomplished, but To the editor: This isn't the only change they want to make it is their right to a point. either. In addition to a shorter evaluation, they In his column last Columnist rants And to Mr. Adams, your column might be better in want to move the evaluation from a paper deal Wednesday, Jon Adams that realm than this. What are getting old to an online form that students will have to fill . seemed disappointed that we want now are options. few people have written in out at a later time. Solutions. Ideas to make the about his writings over the To the editor: As far as making the option for evaluations country a bit better for the last semester. Well, since he move to the online world, there are only a few I wish to write in response rest of us. asked so nicely, who am I to to the ever increasing numIf you feel Hillary Clinton go without making a comdie-hard students that would wait in line for a ber of opinion columns is the best candidate for ment or two? computer at the TSC computer lab to fill out which are as useless as Utah, then explain to the To start, I'd like to make an online teacher evaluation form. If it's not one thing clear so I won't they are unoriginal. On ranchers her plan to help required and not done in class, most students be misunderstood by Mr. Wednesday we neard yet private farms with tax will either forget about filling it out or decide Adams (once again) or another rant by Mr. Adams. breaks and supports. If you anyone else. I generally I wish I could say that for feel Barack Obama is the it's not worth their time to do so. Let's be agreed with the column of once I was gathering some- best, tell the students about honest, the minute students step off campus, last Wednesday. The igno- thing new from this, but as how he plans to increase professors are the last thing they want to thinkr rance of sorrie Americans usual I didn't. Is it because the BLM land. , These are about, unless they have something to gripe is truly terrible. I was also he was telling me things that the things that people need shocked to find out that 1 in I would rather stick my head to know. about. That being the case, the online evaluThe time for half mea4 Americans read no books in the sand about? No. It ations would likely attract only those students was because, even though sures and mudslinging are in 2006. who want to "stick it to the man" in the only That being said, I must I am no longer a student, over. People who truly want way possible at this university. disagree with Mr. Adams he hasn't changed the lines to help FIX this country feelings about the books I heard while at USU or need to step up and give The University of Utah won't let a student solutions to problems. We that were read. Just what UNL see their final grades until their teacher evalutaMy response to his claim already know what is wrong. is so bad about popular fictions have been completed online. While this tion? Hamlet, Adventures of our expressed apathy is Give the options, and let us may be a solution to the problem, let's not get of Huckleberry Finn, The that he needs to open his pick the solutions. Great Gatsby, Trie Grapes of eyes. He needs to realize too demanding. Since when did we ever want Daniel Ligon Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, that what the American peoto be like the U? Slaughterhouse-Five, The ple want is someone who The best solution, if professors want an A few tips for Martian Chronicles, I, Robot, can give them solutions to accurate and honest evaluation, is to shorten Ender's Game, A Wizard of the problems. We may have gym etiquette Earthsea, The Left Hand of become apathetic, but it is the form and give it to students during class to the soapbox yeller, not Darkness, The Lord of the time at the end of the semester. This way the Rings, The Catcher in the the issues. To the editor: thing gets filled out, teachers get evaluated and Rye; these are all works of It reminds me of scene students still get a chance to get out of a ..few, fiction. Most to all of these I witnessed in DC shortly 1 would like to appeal minutes of class. ^ - " ^ - %..•', -*.:,•:,..•V$^~^n&' were also quite popular in after 9/11. Protestors who to the patrons of the Field their day. They remain pop- had come for a WTO meet- House. I work out regularly ular to this day. To dismiss ing (which had been can- and I think it is time for a these and other examples of celed due to the attack) had review of possible gym edipopular fiction is itself igno- decided to do an anti-war quette. rance or elitism. I'd have protest in the streets of a 1. Please don't moon more respect for a regular town that had just watched fellow gym patrons. Wear reader of popular fiction a plane strike it. These pro- shorts that cover your butt, than someone that picks up testers, who were hooded not because I'm a prude but one nonfiction book a year. and masked, began to burn because I'd rather not see 16-year-old driver hit my parked truck at 10:30 in Yes, there are many frivo- an American flag. the morning on a day with clear skies and dry pave- lous and empty works of I do not question the ment. And no, this young man was not talking on popular fiction, but there is rights of assembly of pro- B See LETTERS, page 13 a cell phone. If he had been he might have run into my parked house. At this point, I should go off on a rant about the diminishing intelligence of kids these days. Legally it was his fault, but really it's partially our fault. Automobiles are vectors for stupidity. They come with plush seats, cup holders, elaborate music systems and ashtrays. Some even have DVD players and video game consoles. Cars are just s president of the student body, it the ASUSU and shall be granted all rights and begging you to not pay attention while driving. In a sane has been an honor to serve beside a privileges as established by this Constitution." world, cars would come with wooden benches and little number of students this year who are devices that periodically give you a mild shock or stick Every student at Utah State is a part of dedicated to representing and serving this ASUSU. In other words, ASUSU is the abbrethumbtacks in your butt. The truth is everything about kids these days is our fault. campus. Countless hours nave been spent in viation for the official name of our student I'm a baby boomer and every fiber of me wants to dislike promoting academic causes, working to raise body - the Associated Students of Utah State money for scholarships, lobbying for cheaper University. My hope is that more of the stuthe younger generation, but I can't. textbooks as dent body realizes this, and therefore takes My fellow baby boomer generation is getting mean and well as capital ownership of ASUSU and what happens on spiteful. This generation of craven hedonists '60s survivors support and our campus. This is because, whether stuis trying to prop itself up by diminishing everyone else. need based dents take interest in ASUSU or not, the fact Apparently kids aren't doing anything in school other than A message from the financial aid, remains that ASUSU and the decisions its eating too much and fondling their cell phones. In the president of ASUSU raising money officers make affect every student registered last year, I've heard reputable radio reports about how for charity, serv- USU. In the course of our career here at USU, physical education is no longer part of school, the arts are lacking, kids think Vietnam bombed Pearl Harbor, eggs are ing the community, promoting school pride our student government will allocate and a dairy product, Ohio is on the East Coast, reading and and inclusiveness, planning and providing determine how our money is spent, in addiwriting R, like, rilly bad and that we have math and science activities for the students as well as honoring tion to determining how student fees are allocated as well as being a mouthpiece between skills barely above that of chimpanzees. Additionally, kids the tradition and culture of Utah State. today don't know anything about money and can't cook Unfortunately, many of our students students and administration. This is why, as anything that doesn't go in a microwave oven. believe that ASUSU is made up by those stu- students and members of ASUSU, we all need The trouble is these are all anecdotal dumb things that, dents who work out of the ASUSU offices on to take an interest in what is going on in our while they may be true, they may not be representative. the third floor of the TSC, and who got there campus community. Even more importantly, You see, a lot of the people who write these books don't by campaigning or applying for office. This is we must work at developing an awareness, seem to know much about statistics themselves. It's pretty not correct. To quote Article I of the ASUSU concern and ownership of what happens on Constitution that governs student life on campus, "All students registered at the University, [1 See DUMB, page 13 graduate and undergraduate, are members of Ft See ASUSU, page 13 Forum Lett e rS Kids ain't learning nothing these days A ASUSU elections a chance to take charge of the school A ASUSUView J.,. Assistant Features Editor Di Lewis Sports Editor Samuel Hislop Assistant Sports Editor David Baker Copy Editor Rebekah Bradway Photo Editor Tyler Larson Assistant Photo Editor Cameron Peterson Multimedia Editor Gideon Oakes Editorial Board Seth R. Hawkins Arie Kirk Di Lewis David Baker Alison Baugh About letters • Letters should be limited to 350 words. • All letters may be shortened, edited or rejected for reasons of good taste, redundancy or volume of similar letters. • Letters must be topic oriented. They may not be directed towara individuals. 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