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Show Letters to the EcKtor Night classes Editor: A visitor to the campus, idly thumbing through the schedule of evening classes, might be impressed im-pressed with the great diversity of classes offered, as indeed there are. However, those of us who are unable to attend classes during the day and must try and fill General Parking Editor: Question: Of all the persons on campus, who are most capable to pay traffic fines? Question: Whose registration is filed last in the system so that they have to take 7:45 classes? Answer: Freshmen. Question: Who gets on campus first each day and occupies the closest parking places? Answer: Freshmen. Education credits from the choices offered view it differently. It is impossible to fill the General Education courses, let alone try to fill credits in your chosen field. The same courses are offered quarter after quarter with few exceptions. The reasons offered for this state of affairs are many and varied, but the two most often given are: lack of money to pay teachers and lack of teachers. I have never felt that criticism without solutions had merit, so I offer a solution which will overcome over-come the two above mentioned reasons for this problem. The departments would have to agree to offer, on a rotating basis, all the classes they now offer and these classes would be taught by the professors who now teach them. For example, for one quarter a class would be offered only in the evening and the instructor in-structor would not be expected to teach it during the day. Those de partments which have a larJ number of professors would find r that the professors would only be ! teaching nights once every tt years. I don't feel this is too much i to ask of someone who chose t j teach as his life work. The key it this solution is the rotation. It would put new life into it Countinuing Education progtar and I think it might solve anothe-problem anothe-problem of the evening class-crowding class-crowding of classes. The studei! would not be faced with the prob. lem of trying to get into an i ready over-crowded class, bi rather with the delightful probfc of trying to make up his mjt: which of the many classes offere; to take. The instructors have agreed i; teach their courses for X numb; of dollars-all right, what diffe ence if they teach it at night one in a while? If the solution is impractical I; like to hear why. TAMMY 0' SULLIVA! Question: Who is left to walk from outer perimeter areas? Answer: Upper classmen. Question: Who become mad and despondent and park any place they can find? Answer: Upper classmen. These questions and answers were probably thought about long before the decision to eliminate the upper-lower class parking distinctions. dis-tinctions. It would give the campus added revenue each day by the continual jamming of all upper-lower cars in the same parking area. Finally, Jim Pingree, your battle bat-tle lost is not the war. I'll help you fight it out! If the upper-lower parking area is eliminated, with the same reason rea-son Mr. Dixon gave for eliminating eliminat-ing it ("There is now new and ample am-ple parking area in the perimeter for all") I suggest elimination of all prejudice parking in that case no staff or faculty parking. What does the faculty and staff think about that? Either that or give back the sniveling mob of freshmen fresh-men their rightfully owned walks. We (upper classmen) earned ours. And who wants to challenge the old traditions? ROBIN GILLESPIE |