So, my college (Saint Louis University) has thought of this great new policy to consider. It was just presented to our Student Government Association, and I was wondering how wonderful you think it all is. note, I am being ridiculously sarcastic, as this school’s administration rules with an iron fist:
Recently, SGA and the Student Conduct Office drafted a proposal to introduce a demerit system that would give the Office of Student Conduct a say in what happens in your classes.
It effectively brings the office of student conduct into the handling of the simplest classroom affairs.
CONDUCT ADDRESSED INCLUDES:
being late to class
incomplete or sub par work
rolling your eyes
laughing at or about anyone or anything that may be questionable
making a sexist comment
untempered unguarded noises while the instructor is speaking
lack of participation
sleeping
Texting
unapproved laptop use
“doing other things”
[quote]etaco wrote:
dreads989 wrote:
that’s literally in the policy. “doing other things”.
“Other things” could include committing human sacrifice while raping fellow students. Are you in favor of human sacrifice and rape?
You animal.[/quote]
I’m not into human sacrifice, but ‘other things’ I regularly take part in include gang rape and bare knuckle boxing with people from the retirement home. They’re tough bastards. lol.
That is a fucked up policy, thats like saying you can’t do anything, or if you did do something, they could say that it came under ‘other things’ and you’d get your bottom spanked (not in a good way).
College is supposed to be about ‘higher learning’ (no jokes for the moment), and applying what is essentially babysitting type procedures like they have to on a high school level is just stupid and insulting. When I taught college, my class was MY class, and occassionally I’d get a little memo of suggestions from the dept chair, but no one ever even popped in to see what I was doing.