It was common knowledge among students that manadatory attendance at the Dome diminished enthusiasm for attendance. Your argument that a good kick in the backside somehow will increase the positivity in students' attitudes towards group program no doubt reflects the thinking of the administration as well. Is it any wonder the University is having such a hard time attractingand keepingstudents?
L B S --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the face of it, LB's argument looks unanswerable. But from what I > remember of students in the dome (not all of them) is that there was > a lot of > sheer laziness and dopiness around. What some of them needed was a > good > kick in the backside and a reminder to actually do the practice. In > my > experience, if you do seize on the tiniest impulse to move around and > to hop, > that actually does get the bliss moving around inside you, and this > promotes > more of the stuff. It jump starts you, so to speak, so you're no > longer just sitting > there like a big lump of inert matter. So while grading students on > how much > they hop may seem senseless and a distortion of the teaching, it may > in fact > wake people up and possibly do some good. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Meanwhile, certain fundamentals of The Knowledge have actually been > > compromised by the University. For example, the principle of > innocence in > practice > > absolutely foundational as far as I'm concernedwas completely > trashed by > the practice of > > grading students on their performance in the Domes, where they are > observed by faculty > > and accorded a performance rating based on how much they hop. Does > anyone seriously > > believe that a student who hasn't hopped until the last minute of > the session > won't jump > > up and down once or twice for the sake of the grade? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
