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Time flies, doesn't it? A mere hour ago, the distinguished Barry S. Kane, FAS Registrar extraordinaire, sent his first email of the semester. The implications, of course, are clear: the semester is over, another year has passed, and you better fill out your Q Guide or prepare to get bumrushed, KGB-style...
Well, the administration has yet to take those sorts of drastic measures to raise the 74% (pretty impressive) response rate. But, if you happen to have a have a from: Barry Kane, to: trash email filter, you might want to perk up. The Registrar has finally learned the power of incentives...
...this term will be a feature that many students have been encouraging us to implement - the Registrar's Office will permit students who have completed all of their course evaluations to view their final course grades electronically as soon as the final examination period has concluded. Conversely, students who do not complete all of their evaluations will not be able to view their on-line grades this early in the process...
However, has the Registrar deeply considered the ramifications of this? On margin, those extra 26% who refuse to fill out the Q are the hardest of hard core holdouts. They set up Barry Kane filters, they refuse the appeals of such campus luminaries as Matt L. Sundquist '09, Sangu J. Delle '10, and Clifton G. Dawson '07, and don't even care enough for their future brethren to lower that fanatic-inflated overall rating on that small seminar class. These free-riders just refused to care enough...until...
...helps you make out; Cal Ripken, Jr.=making out with same girl 2,632 consecutive times; called third strike=leave theater, get popcorn, return, date absent; inside the park home run=artificial insemination; suicide squeeze= “DO ME OR I’LL KILL MYSELF”; Registrar Barry S. Kane=inventor of the suicide squeeze...