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Braden McGrath <bwm3_NOSPAM_@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
: "Dan Alt" <dan@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu> wrote in message
: news:9cjrdn$rkg$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu...

:> Wasn't one of his first actions to abolish open office hours?

: I'm not sure.  If that is the case, it means that they must SET a specific
: time that they WILL be available, instead of saying "ok i'm here sometimes
: just drop in."  Although it seems like they're less available, for many
: professors it forces them to be MORE available because they are then
: accountable for the time they set as their office hours. 

	I meant HIS open office hours.  Pytte had walk-in hours
for students every Wednesday at 3PM. (might not be the exact time,
but that's the idea)  Anyone could come see him without an appointment.
Auston got rid of that.

:> Which actions did you have in mind?

: PCUEL.  (You know, that whitepaper.)  This was a step in the right
: direction.  The problem there is that the campus is too apathetic to care,
: or that people just didn't think it would do any good.  PCUEL is one thing
: that, given enough student support, could possibly make changes happen.
: Problem is that every other cursory attempt the school has shown about
: caring for student interests tends to flop, so students are wary of this one
: as well.  It's disappointing.

	He didn't WRITE the white paper, just appointed the commission.
And even if he did, writing a report, in and of itself, does nothing.

: Uhhh... Technology transfer = more money and recognition for the school.  I
: don't see how living north or south side makes a difference... ("useless for
: those of us north of Euclid")  If the school were getting more money from
: other places, maybe they could quit selling out to other companies - case in
: point, Pepsi.  I have no hard numbers, but most people that I've talked to
: would prefer Coke, or at least like to have the choice of both.  Case sold
: out to Pepsi because they would give us more money to "help build a student
: center," which is something that still hasn't happened.

	By "North of Euclid" I didn't mean people LIVING northside.  I
meant the humanities.  When was the last time an anthropologist developed
something the school could patent?



-- 
Daniel Alt    Department of Music - Case Western Reserve University

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world
   is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require." - Edward Elgar