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Show Features Page 4 Monday, September 25, 2006 Editor: Andrea Bean 626-7621 The Signpost Classroom etiquette Freshmen students' first-year adventures By Andrea Bean lifestyles editor | The Signpost Students politely listen and take focused on the lecture. The relaxed atmosphere of college classes is one aspect of college life Ashley Garret, a Weber State University freshman, said she enjoys. "You're responsible for yourself," she said. She said she thinks more initiative is expected out of college students. College students are responsible for their own education and making sure they learn. Professors aren't as lenient as secondary education teachers, and they aren't as active in making sun- students do their assignments. "You haw to meet them halfway," she said. Garrett, who graduated from high school last June, chose to go to WSU because of its close proximity to her home. She said she couldn't afford to live on her own with roommates. She said the small class sizes at WSU are appealing because she is able to get to know students in her classes. I'M( i T O i n K F F NEHFKEK ; i!!L V r A / - U . W "You get to know them a lot notes during Elanor Olsen's Engish writing class in the Social Science Building. Good manners may help everyone in class learn and stay better because there is not so many people," she said. "I actually need someone to tell you not listening to their voicemails of how you were raised inside of see people I just met again." Garrett said she enjoys her to belch in the middle of class. and the professor never even it." psychology 1010 class because the If you act like a child, you don't stuttered," Wood said. "It was So should we depend on other teacherinvolves the students in the belong in college." never an issue, so nobody students to handle themselves discussion. She said the class feels Learning how professors cared." in a civilized manner, or should like a one-on-one conversation. handle their class may have a Some students may believe we leave it to the professors to "I was expecting a lot of lot to do with whether or not manners are learned at home regulate what is and isn't proper professors to just be 'This is how it they make it an issue. Students and then carried on in other in a classroom setting? WSU is,'" Garrett said. might label professors as aspects of life. senior Gina Barton said she College classes are more either too "strict" WS U believes it has to be joint effort challenging, according to Garrett. between the two parties. senior cell phones to class; others or "way kicked However, this is not something in E r i c "I think students might say leaving the classroom back" she minds. how they Milliron and professors have to to use the bathroom is frowned "You need the challenge to said the communicate," Barton said. upon. In elementary schools, h a n d l e actually lean sometimes, and not way some "Professors should let the class teachers might have had rules t h e i r everything is going to be really students act know what their expectations and acceptable behaviors listed c l a s s e s . easy," she said. in class is a are, and the students should on poster hoard around the F o r m e r Garrett has taken some exams student reflection of be mature enough to abide by classroom. Do college students WSU and didn't perform as well as she how they were raised them." need the same treatment? Weber Ashley Wood said that many would have liked to. State University senior Zach Mall times the professors were so at home. So do students need to wipe "I'll make up for it hopefully; said he feels students should act involved in their lecturing they "If you act like an idiot in their shoes on the invisible floor do better the next time because I didn't really notice anything else class," Milliron said, "it's more mat in front of the classroom? in a mature manner in class. wasn't quite sure what to expect," "I think we as college students going on in the classroom. than likely you were raised like Do students need to knock on she said. "I've never taken college are all old enough to act properly "There were students making an idiot at home. The way you act in class," Hall said. "You don't phone calls during class and outside the home is a reflection See First-year page 5 See Etiquette page 5 Students discuss appropiate classroom behavior By fared Tuia correspondent The Signpost Manners may have the reputation of being present only at the dinner table, and the actions of many students in the classroom may be beginning to reinforce this idea. Manners in the classroom may be somewhat of an unwritten law that can vary depending on the professor. Some students may say many of their professors discourage bringing Campus pet peeves teach students patience hat gets under your skin9 Issues ranging from improper cell phone usage to rude drivers, students discuss annoying behaviors By Shalian Dore correspondent | The Signpost irritation of dealing with such pet peeves. Car horns let people know when they have crossed others' irritation boundaries. Humorous bumper stickers warntailgaters of a pet peeve violation. C a 11 e r - I D s let people know who's calling, and devices like digital video recorders and iPods Students may have had to deal with drivers cutting them off or following too closely, They might have had to deal with the neverending calls of determined p h o n e solicitors, and some students may feel they suffer from allow people the irritation to watch of having their favorite programs their favorite or listen to TV program their favorite interrupted music without by mindless interruption. commercials. Like everyone Students else, students possibly have -Michelle Stoker at Weber State things that get under their WSU business U n i v e r s i t y may deal with skin. These administration major. their own pet peeves may vary personal pet from person to person, but the peeves every day. "I think as college students, responses might be similar. Many people may have annoyances, it's easier to let things irritate you whether big or small, which arc because you're already stressed met with reactions like head out," said Michelle Stoker, a shaking, rolling eyes or even fits WSU business administration major. "You have so much on our of anger. Numerous devices have been mind that little things that would developed to spare people the normally just slightly irritate you "/ think as college students, it's easier to let things irritate you because you're already stressed out. You have so much on our mind that little things that would normally just slightly irritate you can really set you off." PHOTO BY JEFF NEBEKER | Tlif W.M'O Students getting to know each other, pehaps more than they would prefer, are jammed like sardines into a Wildcat Shuttle. Crowded places are just one of many pet peeves that drive students crazy. can really set you off." Stoker said one of the things that really makes her blood boil are slow drivers. "There's nothing worse than being late to class and the person driving in front of you is ten under," she said. "Please just go the speed limit!" Melissa Cornell, an accounting major at WSU, said while it is impossible to know what everyone's pet peeves are, students on campus should be mindful of how their behavior might be affecting others. "Personally, I can't stand it when people talk really loud on their cell phones like everyone else wants to hear their Conversation," Cornell said. "Students have better things to do than hear what complete strangers did the night before." According to both of these students, many pet peeves can * See Pet Peevs page 5 |