It CAPITAL TIMES September 20, 1991
Student opposes
cancelled classes
Editor
If we shell out ten bucks for a pair of
movie tickets we won't be too excited if
the manager tells us we can't see the
film have our money back, either. We
wouldn't dream of paying for a load of
groceries, then leaving the store without
them, if we pay for air conditioning on
a new car, we won't be happy if we
discover our car doesn't have that option.
When we go to a restaurant, we don't
pay for our food and then leave without
eating it. We want a lot of bang for our
buck. We expect--we demand-our
money's worth...except when it comes
to education.
If you're an undergraduate student and
a resident of Pennsylvania, twelve credits
at Penn State costs you $2,166.
Missing one class is equivalent to losing
twelve dollars. But rather than become
upset over losing that amount of money,
some students respond to cancellation of
class with uncontrollable joy. They
streak to the parking lot so quickly they
create a sonic boom in their flight.
When the new semester schedule of
classes are issued some students hungrily
peruse them in search of the fabled
WPSH fall '9l radio schedule
Time
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
8:00 PM
"cake" courses. Professors are deluged
with phone calls from prospective pupils
asking questions like, "Do you have a
final? Do we have to write a paper?
How many pages?"
Fellow students are interrogated with
detective-like insistence. "Does he grade
on a curve? How much reading do we
do? what are her tests like? Multiple
choice? Great; let's sign up. All essay?
NOOO!" Quick scribbles on the class
selection form. We too often rate
courses on little more than the
popularity of the professor or the
amount of effort required to receive a
passing grade.
Assuredly, some classes are less
worthy of our dollars than others, but
we need to GO to class, to be able to
participate, in a class, in order to make
that determination of quality, or whether
the class is worth the money. We're
more than happy to complain about the
sorry state of education and the spiralling
cost of tuition, but yet toom many of us
accept the personal okey-doke of taking
the easiest classes we can find, doing the
least amount of work possible.
If we're faking clatsses for
entertainment only, that attitude is
acceptable; we're absolved. But if we're
enrolled for any other reason, shouldn't
we be more concerned about what we're
getting for our money? Or what we're
NOT getting?
Monday
TBA
TBA
Joe Silver
"Alternative"
Terry Wolf
"Classic Rock"
The Dickster
"Alternative"
Lee Schmalbach
"Classic Rock"
Sharon Barris
"Rock"
Jim Foster
"Classic Rock"
OPINIONS
Tuesda
The Fui
"Glam
«gis
lock"
Tammy [Siegfried
"Big Mi|t"
Android Andy
"Unreal Rock"
"Talk Beat"
Bunny & Clyde
"No Format, Format Hr"
John Bedova
"Dance/Altemative"
Simmers & Zeiders
"Dance"
Joe Silver
"Alternative"
Reader Responds
to 'Voice"
Editor
I am compelled to respond on the
comments by Mr. Caton in his column,
"Voice from Hell," that appeared in the
August 26th edition of the paper. My
comments are two-fold:
First, I have been at Penn State
Harrisburg for three years as a part-time
graduate student. Throughout this
period, the Capital Times has
maintained a vary professional image as
a quality newspaper. News was
objectively reported and the paper prided
itself on maintaining excellent standards
in its' reporting and writing capabilities.
These standards have "gone to hell” in
the article by Mr. Caton. His use of
expletives and general substandard
language would be more appropriate for
an article in a supermarket tabloid than
the newspaper of a nationally respected
academic univosity. Yet, the article was
printed, as is, without coisorship or
editing.
Second, my question to Mr. Caton is
why are you still attending Penn State
Harrisburg and the Penn State system?
Ron Wortz
Wednesday
Karen Simmons
"Not Top 40"
The Morning Show
With Larry Luv
"Crazy Mix"
Mark Slater
"Alternative"
Caleb Smith
"Alternative"
Aaron Croop
"Alternative"
Kevin Kremmerer
"Mix"
The Infamous
Mike Stone
You are obviously very displeased with
the system's management, tuition rates
and course offerings. Why have you not
attempted a transfer to another
institution where the tuition might be
lower and the course offerings different?
Certainly the opportunity to "blast" the
management of the univarsity in a
newspaper has not been the motivating
factor to remain at Penn State.
I recommend Mr. Caton relook at his
own motivation to be at Penn State and
do a better job at "investigative
reporting" on why some of these
changes were made before he takes the
shotgun approach to criticism. He may
just find people involved in the decisions
who are much more dedicated to
improving the entire Penn State system
of education than someone who prides
himself on drinking enough cheap beer
to incapacitate the Ecuadorian Navy or
who is still searching for the John
Holmes Institute fra Penis Enlargement
Paul Motel
Thursday
TBA
Fast & Hard
W/Larry Luv
Mark Slater
"Alternative"
Android Andy
"Unreal Rock"
The Ripper &
Brian
"Classic Rock"
Scott Wolfe
"Top 40 Dance"
Friday
Dave Ancharski
"Alternative"
The Dickster
"Alternative"
Tom Wagner
"Alternative"
Ron Welsh
"Classic Rock"
Mark Slater
"Alternative"
Jerry Eltringham
"Alternative"
Aaron Croop
"Alternative"
Bruce Priestner
"Old & New Rock"