White Out2008

Andy Wolcienski:
But what you may not realize is that mid-terms are the final remnants of the hierarchy that has been in place since the down of time itself. When Norwalk University was founded in 1944 by German settlers under mysterious circumstances, one of the first immovable laws to come down, other than the mandatory showers, was mid-terms. It's a travesty of justice. Essentially meaning that two tests, this and the final exam make up roughly ninety percent of your grade. But you're still required to do all the meaningless work for the class. If God forbid, you can't remember EVERYTHING you learned in the first half of the year, you bomb the mid-term and you find yourself SOL. We need to relinquish ourselves from the control of founders long dead. We need to return to the philosophy of Mayor Tony Wilkins, who was the University's strongest advocate up until 1947 when he died suddenly and was buried in the seemingly inappropriate school cemetery. He said something brilliant once, "Let us not be judged by what we know in an instant, but by the accumulated knowledge of an entire life." I ask that we honor this plea from beyond the grave and seek to abolish midterms starting in this next spring semester. If not to save paper and trees then to save our very souls. Back to Reality.