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...fairly. One need only drop the veil of the abstract and look at the real results of the present CUE system to see this. I taught 40 students last semester in two sections of Lit and Arts A-66 and received 20 CUE evaluations. Of those 20, two were blank on the rating side and 12 were blank on the comment side. Of the 12 commenting I would say that four were constructive ("his somewhat caustic manner sometimes hides his concern and can be disconcerting"), two were simply laudatory ("Adam was great!") and two were just plain rude ("leads idiotic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Sections Won't Be Solved by CUE Guide Alone | 4/6/1993 | See Source »

...real life, Eastwood knows how to play the self-deprecating good guy. Just listen to him explain why they wanted him to sign blank slips of paper rather than personalized greetings to Uncle Cappy in Port Clyde. "It's a business," he says. "They trade them." He pauses, grins, then adds, "You get one Steve McQueen for four of mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Make My Career: CLINT EASTWOOD | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...studying -- and speaking -- the language, though learning it is a real oy (pain). To his amazement, Okrand has been accosted by ardent students and subjected to barrages of fluent Klingon. Yampell, who once perpetrated such a barrage, was disappointed to find that the idiom's inventor responded with a blank stare. "He doesn't really speak the language, although he does pronounce it much better than I do." Despite his lack of fluency, Okrand is revered by students of the warrior tongue. "When it comes to Klingon," says one disciple, "anything Marc Okrand writes is the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Klingon: The Final Frontier | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...where he kowtows to white colleagues and a neo-nazi student body as a means of courting a tenured appointment in the Humanities department. When the news breaks that the coveted position has been granted to radical feminist April Jokujoku, Puttbutt reconsiders his politics, digging out paraphernalia from his Blank Panther days at the Air Force Academy. Puttbutt's shift in perspective coincides with the buying out of Jack London College by Japanese investors who rewrite the cirriculum and appoint Puttbutt's Japanese tutor as the school's new president...

Author: By Tracy K. Smith, | Title: Japanese Dismantles the Ivory Tower | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

...Crimson certainly had its chances to draw level, even after Dartmouth junior Scott Fraser scored his second goal of the game with 16:38 left. But the power play, so potent against Colgate (three goals), drew a blank in 5:51 of man-up time...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Can't Handle Big Green, 4-3 | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

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