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Show Monday, October 6,2008 THE SIGNPOST EDITORIAL Signpost Viewpoint Rate your professor professor is pretty easy, and maybe It happens to freshmen a lot, the most telling. There are different sophomores and juniors quite often, routes to go with this, but a popular and even seniors once and a while. site to find out about what professors "It" meaning getting stuck in a class are like is pickaprof.com. On this with a horrible professor. national Web site, with more than Odds are, most Weber State 350 colleges and universities on its University students have been there database, including WSU, anyone can before. It starts with the nerveracking process of picking the classes view student reviews, ratings, and evaluations of professors, as well as a necessary for the next semester. It's history of what grades that professor hard enough picking the classes, but then there are multiple sections of the gives out each semester - very helpful information. same class, with different professors teaching the different sections. Which Now, here's the thing to understand professors are - and PickA-Prof makes good? Which Finding the right professor this clear on its are bad? Which doesn't mean finding the pro- site - this site are the type is not about who rule the fessor who gives out easy A's. angry rants, classroom with Finding the right professor or personal an iron fist? from Which are the means finding the one who attacks students. It's type who pick has personal and professional also not a on students way to look who don't want attributes to give a student for an easy A. to participate the best possible education in It's a forum or answer of ideas and questions? that class. information. Which are Finding the the type right professor who listen doesn't mean to students? finding the Which are professor who the type who gives out easy could care less A's. Finding about what the right professor means finding a student has to say? These are just some of the questions associated with the one who has the personal and professional attributes to give a finding the right class, and professor. student the best possible education • So what's a student to do? It would In that class. Finding out those be kind of cool if students could ' attributes is what makes this'service interview prospective professors, so valuable. and find out which one was right for them. The professors could come Now the benefit from this service by your house, drop off a resume", goes both ways. In order for students give some references, have a brief to get the most comprehensive look interview and go from there. at a professor, that student needs to After all, this is a big decision. This contribute themselves. The Golden Rule mentality is what makes this student-teacher relationship is going idea work best. It takes everyone to last 16 weeks. Those 16 weeks being a user, and a contributor. can feel like an eternity sometimes. By the end of that period, students Get involved. Leave a legacy at have spent so much time staring at WSU. Help future students find that lecturing professors, they know every great professor you did or avoid that physical anomaly, quirky outfit, and horrible professor you didn't. It can verbal and non-verbal tendency make a huge difference. well enough to impersonate those professors on Saturday Night Live with pinpoint precision. Comment on this story at So interviewing might not be an wsusignpost.com. option. Viewing a resume* is easier. But, getting references for the pick^prof SOUKCE. \K I (AMI'I !S Out of right field: Do we really want government health care? bureaucrat made their life miserable for a while. Daron Nelson Most liberals will go on and on about • how they think the government made Signpost huge mistakes with the economy, the columnist war, the response to disasters, and a number of other things. The thing I don't understand is why they want This past week, while doing some to socialize health care, and put the paperwork, I had to make a copy government in charge. If you don't of my social security card. It was a think the government has done well so replacement card I received about a far, why would you put it in charge of year ago. Getting the replacement card your health and well-being? was not much fun. The service was In no way am I saying the health care slow, the lines were long, and those in couldn't use some reform. Too many line seemed to be quite unhappy. people are without insurance, it can The same was true-when I had my be too expensive and workplaces don't car registered and renewed my driver provide enough for their employees. license. I would venture a guess most When I went to the dentist this past people do not appreciate the way week, I had a small hassle with the that the government does business. insurance company. While it was an If I asked, I am sure I would get a lot inconvenience, I was still able to sort of stories from a lot of people about it out that day. How many issues or how the government inconvenienced problems with the government can be them, overcharged them, or how a sorted out in just one day? Not many. I don't like being told what to do all the time. I especially don't like being told what's best for me by someone else. In socialized health care, the government' would decide who should receive what treatment. I doubt everyone agrees with the way the government chose his or her tax bracket, or estimated the cost of his or her home. While I personally may never opt for optional surgery or a non-required procedure, I would hate to see that freedom taken away. No one ever plans to be sick or to need an emergency surgery. But socialized health care requires a waiting period. In Germany, for example, the waiting list for childbirth. is ten months. I am still trying to figure out the math on that one. If you pay attention to foreign politics, you would see the issues England has had with its system. Additionally, I would hate to see the day come when we pay as much taxes as countries with such a socialized health program. With the state of our economy, there are not many Americans excited to pay more of their paycheck to Uncle Sam. No, our system is nowhere near perfect. If we were to socialize our health care system and let the government take over, it would just make it worse. A lot worse.' Comment on this story ot wsusignpost.com. 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