EDITORIAL Dead Week should be the last week It's the week before Finals Week, and it certainly doesn’t seem dead around here. Dead Week is a tradition that is as old as many of the Universities in this country However the terminology "dead” mav not be the most fitting For many students. Dead Week has been the hardest week of the term papers, group projects and evert finals For mans it is worse than Final Week so lot's get rid of Finals Week The idea that Dead Week used to be a week of no classes whatsoevei is not true, at ieast at tilts University Some universities how ever, have been known to cam **i i lasses and spend tile week intense studv vvllat s that') in preparation for exams that start on Saturday of Dead Week University archivist Keith Richard said Dead Week used to be even more alive than dead as many professors used to assign finals during dead week. Some professors would assign papers and projects during the week regardless of what's on the syllabus, if there even was a syllabus Mike I’rothe, a I hiiversity student in the I'.tHOs, was tired of being caught off guard He introduced legislation that required teat hers to determine assignments prior to Dead Week, Ri< hards said Professors had to iru orporate lhoii end of the term assignment - into the syllabus to be distributed at the beginning of the term. Phis is a bit ironic There are probabiv more students that vote at the AS1 () elet lions than students who work m the first week of class on an assignment that is due the iasi week At least " provides for sortie serious use* of the word procrastinate a. and at leas’ students know some '111! ie , Rog.irdinss of tht* legislation, it st'oin.s th«it niflin jjru lessors evaluate t!;u idea of De.ul Week two different wavs hither studs till a final, take a final earlv oi turn 111 an assignment that was known about .til term but never tour tied until the nigiit before m order to eliminate class during Finals U enk Who's kiditiiu: wt: 1 F. very one piotessc - ' r dents alike have one thing in mind as the term winds to an end vacation. Certainly pushing a final forward to extend vacation would he m most people's best interest. Professors should put it in the syllabus now and can cel i lass during Finals Week in the future ( ertainlv after a term with students, professors must bo able to fairlv evaluate a student's performance. Professors could spend the extra time preparing a well thought-out lesson plan for the upcoming term and students could spend the extra time, preferably somewhere warm, forgetting everything they learned the previous term. As far as the name goes we might as well leave it. ladl ing it "Dead," lor some reason sounds better than the 10th week Or maybe wo i mild i hange it to "All Pro 1 instillation Must Hnd. All Assignments Are Due and F nulls Shot ild Hi* (riven F.arly \\ eek Finals \\ oek on Id |),. called. 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Hornbin kle i flanged his vote from a nav to a vea during a shorthanded i ount il meeting Hornbuckle said he was i hanging his vote simply betatise he knew the absent member would vote in tavor of the motion next time Minor Roth Hast om responded with a motherly Thank you, Kevin .is if little Kevin had |tist fin ished cleaning his room Horn buckle w oil kill I know good government if i! full on Ins in-.id lining ei representative means making i ompromisio Von volet for another representa tive s programs, and m turn, that ■. ,. i I'Sriit a! i\r supports vour pro,,onus Ii mav not be perfect ini' tii.it s tint w,i\ ,1 works l nlnss you re Hornhui kle flornbut k In srrms to believe tinit if lie remains unbending long enough, the rest of the world, or at least the l 11\ Coun ill. will suddenly come to its senses and t re.tle a workers' par adise, repLii mg the 1 ugene city charter with the Communist Manifesto. I nr he it from me to s,i\ we told you so." but. we told you so Pehnt the November 1‘l'lii elections, the Enwruld met with Hornhui kle and fus opponent, I hen Dobson, to del ide whit h i undid,ite to endorse for office It was glaringly apparent from that meeting that Hornhui kle u .e. i uiilplelely im apnhle id working with others and that he would he nothing hut a hin drance to tile council's ob|ei lives In our editorial endorsing Dobson, we said, Dobson would lie more willing to work vs itti other members of the coun cil than would Homhuckle "Although HornhuckleN agen da is progressive, lie let! the impression that lie would he unwilling to compromise on issues when net essarv Dob son indicates a more open minded approach to the City Count il." we said Yup. the warning signs were there, hut Ward if voters chose to believe the confused rumblings of a disenfranchised socialist rather than the voice of a con cerned and intelligent citizen C.o figure Speaking of city councils What's the deal with the folks in Springfield7 Apparently the Constitution is simply an incon venient afterthought that shouldn't set ill the way <>l fam ily value -driv en polities, a la ()( \ toady Half Walters and Ins thought-puppet I.arrv Schanz t he coum 11 in Novumhei derided to prohibit ( hildren less than in years old from (.honking out R rated videos from the Springfield library The movie rating system, c reated by the Motion Tic tore Assoc lation of Americ a, u.is never intended to he a definitive value system Rather, it Is a numerical system in which occurrences of sev violenc e* and profane language arc- added up. The movie's rat ing depends on where it falls lit that sc ale The idea that a c it\ c an bun c ertain videos based on then rat ing is as allsurd as deciding what videos to allow the library to Inn based on bow main stars the movie was given In the Reg isfer■Guard Both measures are completely subjet tive and have no bearing on a lilm's quality or sen ml. i ultural and educational values Springfield attorneys finally got around to tolling the coun t tl that its actions were probablv illegal, so the c ounuil c reated .1 new policy where parents can tell the library not to let their c hildren chock out R rated Springfield attorneys think this is lietter Ih-c atise it is not the library making the dec isions. hut rather the parents This may he OK at video stores, which arc private businesses, but still of dubious legality for a public library The c rux of tin* new pol ic \ still relies on tin- MTAA rat ing system, and thus is likely still unconstitutional. A better system is simply to let parents spec ify which movies they don't want their c hildren to choc k out. This way . the- decision, as yveli as the- basis for that dec ision. is left entirely to the judgment of the parents, yvctli no influence from the c ity council or the MPAA Marlin Fisher is a columnist for the Emerald.