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Show Upgrading Curriculum Editor: In keeping with the trend of national awards for new policies that stand out, we would like to present our own "G.L.O.F. Award" (for General Gen-eral Lack of Fiber) to that noble but nameless group of policymakers who, in the interest of "up-grading" the University's curriculum, have added to their list of non-credit courses Math 1, Math 4, Ed. Psych 42, and other courses. We feel that these departments have, as a consequence, been discredited. Judging from this apparent trend, could it be that by the year 200U (according to our Math 1 calculations), these departments will be entirely non-credit? Watch it, department heads; your could be next. Have the policy- makers considered other ways to up-grade these departments, such as hiring more well-qualified instructors (thus reducing reduc-ing the student-faculty ratio), re-vitalizing important and necessary courses developing credit courses to better fit the needs of all students, and acquiring more effecient and effective equipment and materials which will assist in course presentations by already-overburdened instruc tors in these departments? " ' We're not hung up on your idea of eliminating credit for college classes (in factt it seems to us a good idea for the entire university curriculum), but your feable attempt to "up-grade" these departments by eliminaing credit in certain classes, which are important to many undergraduates, eminently qualifies the policy-makers for this week's General Lack of Fiber Award. Please drop by our offices for your rubber-stamped certif- icates" E. B. Sorenson Timme A. Helzer |
