Language lessons: LSA requirement does not achieve its goals
The LSA language requirement: Students can't live with it, the University can't live without it. In an effort to rectify the general attitude of distaste toward the language department, the LSA student government urged the University to create a task force comprised of students and faculty to improve language department class offerings and study abroad programs.
Senseless stickers: State-endorsed diplomas do not help students
Most students stop getting stickers for good schoolwork when they are in the second grade. Michigan's state-endorsed diploma system brings stickers back to students for bureaucratic and arbitrary reasons. During his administration, Gov. John Engler made several changes to the state's public education system, including mandating that all high school seniors work to receive a state endorsement. Engler's educational brainchild strips schools of their autonomy and inches closer to his goal of state-controlled education systems.
'Great books' requirement would enrich 'U' experience
Thousands of students will graduate from colleges across America next month. Sadly, many of these soon to-be-graduates have never read Homer's "Odyssey" or Virgil's "Aeneid." Unlike Ezra Pound, I'm not troubled by Americans reading the classics - I'm troubled that they don't.
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