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...part by requiring him to sing in close harmony with three others. The Din and Tonics ask students to sing in octets, matching four veteran members with four auditioners. "We gradually pull out the old members to see how well the new people take charge," said Jon E. Berner '86, a two and a half year veteran of the Dins...
Personality may also influence a student's acceptance to the group since groups spend so much time together, says Berner. "You spend so much time together. Rehearsals take a lot of time, as well as weekend retreats, and week-long tours. We may have a concert in Philly at 7 p.m., party with the guys until 1 or 2 a.m. then drive back eight hours together. If a Din says `This guy's really nice; he's really a good guy' that can only help. But you don't need connections per se to get in or anything...
...Susan Berner, a business major from Strongsville, Ohio, knew when she entered Philadelphia's Drexel University that computers would play an important role in her college education. Like other entering freshmen, she had been informed that in addition to the first-year fees of about $9,000 for tuition, room and board, she would have to shell out $1,020 for an Apple Macintosh computer and a bundle of software. Indeed, when she arrived on the urban campus last month, dormitories, classrooms, offices and labs were already teeming with some 6,000 Macs...
Still, the pervasiveness of the computer revolution at Drexel was beyond even Berner's expectations: coin-operated modems in the library for telephone communications between computers; printer stations in the dorms; computer- designed flyers tacked to every bulletin board. And nobody had told her that two days after she picked up her Mac (one of 1,809 distributed to the freshman class), she would be tapping out her first English composition for a professor who refuses to read any paper that is not written on a word processor...
...trivial mistake which costs nothing to correct, they have a right to expect service. I knew, these are strong words, but to students who so often must simply accept without question university requirements, and who work to pay for their tuition, this is significant financial and ethical issues. Jon Berner...