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From: dzoey@umd5 (Joe Herman)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Grading, atmosphere at Georgia Tech
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 15:54:46 EDT
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John Tamplin <119@blnt1.UUCP> writes:

> At Georgia Tech, the only major problem with mischievious computer science
> students that I know of is the printout stealers.

The same used to be true here at Merryland years and years ago, so they
stopped self-serve printer service and hired workstudy students to play
dispatchers.  After a while, no one could remember about printout stealing
so two years ago, they allowed one student self-serve printer in a remote
terminal location (the library).  An instant hit and the reports of stolen
printouts are very rare.  I guess you just have to break the trend...


> Classes may be dropped up until the middle of the quarter.  You can
> only add or  change classes during the first week.  The system is
> already being abused (some people take 22+ hours, only to drop 6 at
> midterm)....

I don't see why this is an abuse.  Throughout my college career I've always
signed up for more credits than I was intended keeping simply because
I didn't know which of the classes would suit me.  After I decided which
ones I was interested in, I dropped the others.  I don't see why this is
an abuse of the system (Merryland's system of drop/add is similar to
Ga. Tech's)

> John Tamplin					Blount Brothers Corporation
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Joe Herman
Computer Science Center PC/IP Project
University of Maryland

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