Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Also gone are the interior monologues, and good riddance; Sidney has no soul to confide to us. But he has a handsome line of patter - a slick pitch (most likely a spitter) for shoddy merchandise. He stops you on the street, talks fast, and suddenly you're wearing a fake Rolex. You've been had, in the grimy mid-Manhattan theme park called Sidneyland...
...honestly, who sings along to Radiohead? Heck, who even knows what a Radiohead song is about? (Yeah, I know— “fake plastic trees.” Wicked cool.) With Garth Brooks, things are simpler: there are songs about truck drivers whose wives cheat on them, songs about rodeo cowboys, songs about people running into their high school girlfriends and thanking God that they didn’t marry them. There are songs for Republicans, like the rousing “American Honky-Tonk Bar Association” (It represents the hardhat, gun rack, achin?...
Thus, 73 percent of students believe that the average grade should hover around an A- in the humanities and almost as high in the social sciences. Those marks are deserved. No grader could possibly fake the “Big A,” right...
Baloney. Almost all of us faculty members fake it every semester. The reasons are manifold. We get to know and like our students and we don’t want to penalize them if everyone else is getting high grades. We don’t want to deal with the protests and struggles that can accompany marks in the low B and C range. Perhaps most importantly, we know that lower grades often—although not always—translate into lower student evaluations and lower enrollments. So we let loose with an orgy of academic...
...academic as in romantic affairs, honesty and self-scrutiny are of paramount value. Let’s strive for an atmosphere in which faculty and students understand each others’ needs, everyone achieves academic fulfillment and no one has to fake...