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...librettist exhorts us, too, to "restrain those who fondly court their bane," and scolds those spending their lives "In frantic mirth and childish play/ In dance, and revels night and day..." The music during this mercifully short third section is much slower, perhaps taking its cue from Jennens' admonition that we "Keep...still the same in look and gait/ Easy, cheerful and sedate." This final section is certainly sedate, almost verging even on morose, culminating in the final couplet of the work: a grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite...
While we are not sure what other purposes the CUE Guide could be used for (athletic? social?), we believe that embracing new technology halfheartedly-fearing its capabilities-is both counter-productive and disadvantageous to students...
...CUE Guide should not be treated as gospel, but for those students who base their course decisions solely on CUE ratings, expanding the on-line search engine will only make the jobs of those students easier; it will not encourage more students than already do to choose classes on the somewhat arbitrary and definitely insufficient set of criteria that comprise CUE Guide evaluations...
Also discussed at the CUE meeting (and in fact more important than the search engine debate) was the possibility of putting final exams on the Web. On-line access to final exams would be of great help to students and we strongly recommend that the committee move swiftly on this issue. Otherwise, students will continue-often in vain-to try to find old exams in libraries across campus. Even when such exams are found, tracking them down often requires the wasting of a precious afternoon. Though there is an issue of confidentiality, regarding access to the exams by those outside...
...integral part of University life, and though administrators may mourn the days when students actually had to leave their dorm rooms to acquire information, those days are rapidly disappearing. Web access to final exams will make our lives easier; and updating the search engine for the on-line CUE Guide will make being lazy easier. But it is up to students to navigate new technology, not crotchety committees...