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-editorial Finally We don’t want to add to students’ worries by remind ing them that their entire future depends on their perfor mance during the next five days. There’s no need to ap plaud the uncanny appropriateness of the word ‘finals.’’ Everyone knows that for the next week they will risk being scorned by their professors, disowned by their par ents, shunned by employers and ridiculed by friends. It's the price students pay for this cushy life. So, accepting things as they are, we shall attempt to give students some hints on how to deal with final exams. The bits of advice that follow are gleaned from bitter ex perience and, besides your social security number, are all you need to know to graduate from any university. MULTIPLE CHOICE TESTS: If there's a yellow test and a pink test, the yellow test is easier. B and C are answers more often than A or D. The guy next to you doesn’t know any more than you do. Things are seldom always true or never false. Avoid absolutes. Check your idiot sheet for symmetry and balance, but avoid simple or obvious patterns. Beware of ‘all of the above" and “none of the above." If you’re really stumped by a question, look for the answer in another question. Remember, your professor is trying to trap you. TERM PAPERS: If you have term papers due this week, don’t worry. Your professor won’t have time to grade them care fully. Write a good first page, a good concluding paragraph and an impressive bibliography and you’ll get by. The middle pages can be any printed material. Bulk is important. Some professors keep scales in their offices and grade papers by weight. Use heavy bond paper or light cardboard. Use the same paper for several classes. Simply strike out "Shakespeare" and insert “Freud" or “Keynes,” what ever is required. Truth, after all, is eternal and unchanging. Don’t plagiarize without proper attribution. Use lots of charts and graphs, whether they pertain to the subject matter or not. Be as stodgy and impersonal as possible; avoid the first person at all costs. Neatness counts. A typed, double-spaced paper with an attractive layout is half the game. Remember, your professor wants you to flunk. ESSAY EXAMS: Structure your essay the way professors structure their lectures; say what you’re going to say, say it, then say what you said. Qualify every statement you make. Write about general trends and broad movements; use specifics only as examples. Don’t argue against your professor’s opinions unless you really know your stuff. Spend more than the suggested amount of time on the main question and do the main question first. Don’t write in pencil. If you’re not sure of a fact, skip it or be vague. If you don’t know the facts and can’t avoid having to list them, invent the most plausible ones you can. Remember, your professor wants revenge. - | “...and an athletic ticket, and a good registration time, and two hundred shares of ITT!” Letters The Emere,'i will accept and try to print all letters c ontaming fair comment on ideas and to pics of concern or inte rest to the University commurity Be cause of space limitations, let ters must be no more than 250 words, typed, triple-spaced, dated and signed with the person's major. No unsigned letters will be published Longer opinion columns will be published whenever pos sible after being submitted to the editorial page editor. The limit on opinion columns is 800 words, using the same format as letters. Item of the week The Status of Women Commit tee has become increasingly con vinced over the past couple of years that there is still a genuine need on our campus for increased awareness/consciousness of what discnmination is all about After much discussion and input, we have come to believe that a regular spot in the Emerald called something like "Discrimination Item of the Week could be very helpful. It couid perhaps contain items similar to those in Ms. magazine's “No Comment sec tion, but all originating on this campus. We would like to see items sol icited from the campus community at large (e g., send the Emerald your favorite no comment event"); however, we would be willing to provide items if or when necessary and we already have a small collection One of our cur rent favorites comes from a stu dent publication dealing with "Student Rights," which contains an illustration of two club-wielding nude males' Another comes from required reading in a required course A study of “47 boys is footnoted as follows "Of course there were also girls but in the in terest of economy of print we use boys instead of boys and girls'.” And under the heading "Over heard in the Corridor we were told of the pompous male adminis trator who was leaving the office and said to several women, "Goodnight, girts One of the elder women responded cheerily, "Goodnight, boy Another possible category of items is "Title IX is alive and well In one of the campus buildings the only women s restroom with ac cess from an administrative office has been for three years locked from 12 noon to 1 o clock After three years of futile protests, memos and pleading, an angry woman professor waved Title IX at the male administrator, insisting that the women's room be un locked, or the men's restroom be used by both sexes, or that the men s room also be locked during that hour. Within a few days, that which had been impossible for three years became possible and the women s restroom was un locked We would very much ap preciate your consideration of this matter and would welcome dis cussion with you about any way in which we could be of help Please contact Myrtice Butler, Speech Pathology, Chairer of the Status of Women Committee, for more in formation. Thanks for listening and we hope to hear from you. Gunilla Finrow—Architecture for Status of Women Committee Privacy rights This letter is to commend the position taken in your editorial of Dec. 9 in support of the Buckley Amendment As you know, this is a law which was enacted by Con gress a couple of years ago. for the purpose of ensuring to stu dents certain rights rotative to per sonal information on them which is held and kept by educational in stitutions This legislation grants to students the statutory right to inspect and review personal in formation records held by the in stitutions, with the right to chal lenge the accuracy of any such records In addition, institutions are required to keep track of all those persons who obtain access to the personal files of any stu dent Finally, the legislation grants to students the right to restrict ac cess on any or all items classified as ' directory information " ft is hoped that students will be come informed about their rights under the Buckley Amendment, exercising such rights when deemed appropriate It is for all persons concerned about the individual s right to privacy to commend Congress for enacting such valuable legislation. and to speak out against positions taken by University officials to repeal this legislation Mark Cogan ASUO Vice President For State Affairs Ad misconstrued Some important people may have misconstrued the object of our advertisement in the Emerald concerning HE406 Psychoactive Drugs. The objective of the Center is to reduce misuse and abuse of over-the-counter, pharmaceuti cal, herbal, and illicit substances through information and educa tion. It is unfortunate that when one hears the word "drug,'' there is an immediate connotation of illegal ity, when in point of fact there are about 216 legal drugs for every illegal drug. The Center has never and will never advocate the use of any drug; this decision must be made by an individual who has carefully weighed alt physiological, psychological, social, and legal implications of chemical use. Richard N. Warner, Director Mark A. Miller, Chairman Drug Information Center ttNAlWN P AID YOU IN
