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...Coop the other day, searching for a textbook. Going up stairs and down hallways, with soft, sappy elevator music soothing my ears, I passed by all kinds of merchandise. Women's clothing. Electronics. Tapes and CDs. Picture frames. The Coop truly has everything, I thought...
...unreasonable to assume that a student given access to a textbook during a test on the Shavante Indians would proceed to read about their rites of passage for the first time during the hour allotted to him to take the exam. The student would still need to have a working knowledge of the topic, in addition to knowing where to find useful details. Coupled with finely-tuned analytical skills, these are the only tools that a great anthropologist would need...
...allowing the use of textbooks, Assistant Professor Margo I. Seltzer rendered a test of the minute details of C programming pointless. The only thing that could be tested remained the students' ability to apply the knowledge that they had acquired. They still had to have a very complete working knowledge of the language, and they could use the textbook to recall fleeting little bits of information that really shouldn't have been necessary to memorize...
Once a deaf person contracts AIDS, its horrors are magnified. John Canady, the scion of a multigeneration deaf family in California, signed so exquisitely that he served as a model for an ASL textbook. His eloquence meant ) less than nothing when he ended up in a San Diego hospital with an AIDS- related crisis. Not only did his attendants fail to provide an interpreter, they also tied his hands to a gurney. Trapped for hours in the classic nightmare of I-want-to-scream-but-some one-has-his-hand-over-my-mouth, Canady died shortly after friends found...
...least there was a textbook in the reaction-laden Chem 17, and the theory-emphasized 20-30 sequence. But here, lo, there is no text. The diligent orgo student is dazed and confused--how can I regurgitate the information if I have no text...