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...students on their performance during the semester--there's already time enough for that. Instead, this is the week at the end of each semester when students trudge from class to class, filling out those pink bubble sheets full of questions about courses, professors and teaching fellows. The resulting CUE Guide is used by unsuspecting first-years and by even more experienced upperclass students in the pursuit of the "right" classes to make a great semester...
...pretty burnt out from filling out numerous evaluation forms. In fact, I nearly lost it when I saw the Dining Service's feedback forms at the Greenhouse in the Science Center. Not only have I filled out CUE Guide evaluations for four classes, but I've also bubbled a couple of departmental evaluations. Last year at this time, I had to evaluate my "freshman experience" for the Freshman Dean's Office...
...addition, the CUE Guide lists only teaching fellows who have received high ratings. While this is helpful, bad teaching fellows are not listed and thus, students can not steer clear from the TFs who could make a semester miserable...
Because the CUE Guide is so important to students choosing classes, some professors revamp their courses in response to student evaluations. While this is encouraging, these changes are often too abrupt and motivated by the wrong rationale...
...movies is often grim; Sophie's Choice, Scarface, Ironweed, Hoffa and most of Oliver Stone's psychodramas were December releases. The reason is coincidence: Christmas Day also marks the start of the last eligible week for the year's Oscar nominees to be released, and that's the cue for superserioso films. So audiences in search of vigorously vacant entertainment this holiday season will find Mrs. Doubtfire and not much else. The rest is state torture, mortal prejudice, mass death. Instead of tidings of joy, Hollywood offers the writhings...