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Students Need I ipQ ijpjjg EDITOR evaluating their instructors i in categories such as enthusiasm, promptness, and The time fast approaches courtesy, the instructors for the biannual appraisal of evaluate their students in a USC's teaching staff, similar manner? otherwise known as student The evaluation form could evaluations. No one doubts be brief, perhaps issued the worth of this procedure: along with final grade roll teachers can use student forms, to be scotch-taped to comments constructively, the wall when final grades weighing what the students are posted. The instructor feel about the course with would then have the opwhat they feel is best, and portunity to comment: department heads can use "I enjoyed teaching this them as a way to determine class. Your enthusiasm was the qualifications and heart-warming." abilities of their teachers. Or: But ? since evaluations is "I deeply resented the fact such a useful tool ? why not that, even though ours was a reverse the process? Why large lecture, class, some of not, in addition to students you slept or read Gamecocks Get Facts Straighi TO THE EDITOR Mike Lough's column of March 29 (Georgetown Administration Succumbs to Ewingitis) is trash. Virtually every word of it is unfounded or simply untrue. The serious inaccuracies involve Georgetown University. He accuses Georgetown of subverting its academic reputation in admitting Patrick Ewing. He says that Georgetown gave into demands from Ewing's high school coach, Mike Jarvis about admissions standards. Jarvis did indeed send a letter to all college coaches interested in Ewing. It said that Ewing would require untimed tests and tutors. Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson's reaction, as quoted in Tuesday's Washington! Post was "Look, we're making no deals. About examinations, courses, fufnnc u/oVp makino no rivals All we'll do is lav on a good I'M U j TI V a V -.w MW.W. - ? ^ u education. But you're not going to tell me how to do it. Don't ask me to educate your boy and then tell me how to do it." Lough says that colleges would have admitted Ewing with a 1.0 projected GPR. Hogwash, the NCAA requires a 2.0. Ask Earl Jones. Lough says that Ewing is taking up space from other students at Georgetown and is only there because of his size and basketball ability. As Lough puts it 4 'there is no way Georgetown is living up to its admission standards," I quote G U president, Father Timothy Healy, responding to charges that Georgetown has harmed itself in admitting Ewing. In Tuesday's WashingtonPost he said"I do know the numbers, entrance exam scores, current grades, and the charges are a crock. That's all. It's absolute nonsense. This much I can legally say: had Patrick Ewing been a . Washington resident and gone through our Upward Bound program, as he did in Boston, and been three feet high, we'd taken him. If he were three feet high nobody would have fussed about it. Bill Stoff, our dean of student affairs rides hard on those transcripts, and the team is made up of students in good standing." Now I'll discuss the parts of Lough's blabberings that are only unfounded. He insinuates that Georgetown is on the way to eventually paying its players and being censured by the "Jjg mi SOME RAY PEAR, ALL THIS Evaluating Too [" during our meetings. If this share the responsibility for is how you feel about higher what goes on in their education, why don't you go classrooms. Put in yet I 1 A t * ? A I A A ' A 1_ _ r nuine ana waicn soap anotner way, me auuuae oil operas?" the students is just as imOr: portant as the qualifications "Teaching you was like and motivation of the inteaching a bunch of dead structor, and I think my w logs. The worst teaching proposed teacher-evaluation experience of my life. I of the students might be a , hated every minute of it." first step in making clear , I could go on, but I think this truism to people here at j you get the general idea. My USC. Any student who feels , point is that if evaluations cheated out ot a pleasant j are so helpful to the in- learning experience would structor, then they will be then, I hope, ponder his own ' equally helpful to the contribution to the course student. As anybody in first, before blaming the education knows, the teacher. learning process is a twoway street; teachers and NICKERSON PEMBROKE students, in other words, Teaching Assistant t And Apologize NCAA. He says that Ewing is never going to get his degree and that John Thompson may not be the fair coach he claims to be. Mr. Thompson has been at Georgetown for ten years. Every player he has coached at GU has graduated from there. He has never been investigated by the NCAA. Drnci^nnf Uaalv r,( rionrootniiin cavc 4< T am VPTV cnitl A 1 VOIUVI1W I&VUIJ V4 MVVtgVI.VUIl * v<>>' , J Vw... fortable with John Thompson. If he's not an honest man, I've never met one. Thompson sits down every Friday with each of his players and demands evidence that they have attended each of their classes. Of Ewing, Thompson says, "This man is going to be a leader in the black community. I'd like to make sure he's got something to say." Lough gives the impression that Georgetown chased Ewing. Thompson visited Ewing's home once and never phoned him. Surely, few coaches pursue a high school star in such a sensible manner. Lough knocks Ewing's class schedule and his major. Yet he has no idea what Ewing's curriculum is. Thompson has had a rule since he came to Georgetown which states that no freshmen may discuss their classes with anyone from the press. Lough even suggests that Ewings IQ is 100. He obviously has Ewing confused with himself. Why does Lough say such untrue things about Ewing and Thompson, both of whom he is obviously ignorant about? If one were as quick to jump off on tangents as Lough, one could ; suggest that the reason is because Ewing is a famous DiacK student while Thompson is the most prominent black coach in basketball. ! However who cares if Lough is racist. He does not know the j facts about Ewing and Thompson. In addition, he fails to mention examples of schools that really do cheat. Why j doesn't he mention that Nevada-Las Vegas has graduated two basketball players in the past eight years. In any case, Mike Lough, get your facts straight and apologize to Georgetown University, John Thompson and Patrick Ewing. Then maybe in three years Ewing will let you look at his diploma from Georgetown, his NCAA championship rings and his million dollar NBA contract. JUNIOR RAMSEY Journalism Graduate WILL BE YOUR HUSBANDS,.. Lezlie Wallace ?, / 4 ';m? Editorial Page Editor Thoughts of college include many different things for arious people. Many anxiously approach college with isions of countless dates awaiting them within the gates of tie university. Men envision noraes 01 gins uegguig iu ut; sked out, and women expect to have countless calls and ivitations for every weekend. Men wonder how they will be ble to choose from such a wide selection, and women worry bout how to turn down all the guys they would rather not go nit with. As all college students have learned, campus life is not like hat. Coming to college doesn't make dating any easier than t was previously, aside from the fact that in most cases you lon't have to worry about impressing parents ? at least not it first. Dating in college poses different problems. For instance, making yourself spend time studying instead >f going out every chance you get. The average student would -ather go out and enjoy an evening on the town than in rhomas Cooper Library studying. So the temptation is iverbearing at times, and grades often suffer. Then there is the dilemma of delegating time equally between your friends (buddies) and your girl/boyfriend(s). Mo matter how much time you spend with either, neither is ever satisfied. There is always jealously at both ends, tugging at you constantly. You exhaust yourself trying to keep up with both sets of friends. Men especially have this, and seem to exert more peer pressure than do women. Many a relationship has faltered because of a guy buckling under pressure from his friends. While students who live at school don't have to worry about impressing parents, they are faced with impressing friends. This is another facet of peer pressure. If your friends don't like your date, it is likely that you won't go out with him/her again. Many students think that it is more important for friends to aDDrove of their dates than it is for parents to approve. One girl said that her "friends know what I like; we have the same tastes." Sometimes someone will go out with a person they think they like, only to be told by a friend that they aren't suited for each other. Many guys claim that they fear rejection, so they don't ask, many girls out. They think girls have it easy, since they get to make "the final decision." They are afraid of the embarrassment that will be bestowed upon them if the girl says no. However, many girls also use this same excuse for not asking guys out. Even though many girls feel that it is perfectly acceptable for females to ask males out, many refuse to chance the rejection. Economics also play a major role in dating in college. It s quite simple: most girls demand more than guys can supply. It has been embedded in our minds that men must pay for everything, always. That is a nice concept ? for women ? but not always practical when both parties involved are college students living with college budgets. Many guys don't ask girls out because they don't feel that they can afford to. They believe that girls expect them to take them out to a movie and dinner, or something equally as expensive, everything on each time. With the price of movies today, what student can afford that very often? Which brings me to the next excuse used by many coeds at USC ? there is nothing to do in Columbia. Well, let me make a few suggestions. First, a point needs to be made. Lots of students feel uncomfortable drinking around members of the opposite sex. While that is understandable for students who do not nor many drink, it is dimcuit to comprenena wny students wno do drink around their friends of the same gender, do not drink when they are on dates. Changing this practice would open up various possibilities for dates. Who said that you can't do the same thing on a date that you do with your frienc^? If you want to stick with the traditional date, then there are always special coupons available from Student Government, or advertisements around town and in the newspapers, to help defray the cost of movies. There is also usually a movie playing in Russell House for less than half of what it would cost at a movie theatre. You can be original for dates too. Play Putt Putt, go to Riverbanks Zoo, or go to a play. "Dating" is very rare on campuses these days. By this, I mean just going out once or twice to have a good time, with no commitment involved whatsoever. There seem to be more relationships abounding, however. Maybe college students just get tired of playing the "dating game." Maybe they would rather have someone that they can be themselves around, someone that they can feel comfortable with. Most students don't discover this until the end of tfteir college career. So what about those "disillusioned" . * A KnrfivA o nour freshmen wno come 10 scuuoi eApcuuug to ucgm ? h^ty career of dating. They, like the rest of vis, must leam the truth the hard way. They must experience the disappointingly quiet phones, the quiet, dull weekends spent studying. Soon they will learn about the problems of dating.