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An Open Letter
Having begun my third
year here at Guilford, I can
say I know pretty well the way
things go around here, but once
again I have encountered a sit
uation that leaves me angry and
frustrated, and since no other
channels are open to me, I
chose to express my observa
tions and feelings concerning
the precise particulars of this
situation in an open letter to
the faculty.
Dear Madams and Sirs,
There are those of you
here at Guilford who are good
and fair educators but as with
all professions, some of you
are better at teaching than oth
ers. In this category of educa
tors there are those who com
pensate for natural talent and
flair by being organized fair
and consistent. Then we come
to those "few bad apples" --
the educators to whom I ad
dress this.
A relaxed and casual
classroom is a good thing, but
when you are consistantly late
you are setting the stage for
our nonchalance about our
chiming cues, the bells which
signify the beginning and end of
class. When you are late, I do
not think it gives you the right
to lecture through the 50 min
ute bell till the hour just so you
can "cover the material." There
are those of us who have jobs,
appointments and other classes,
and count on at least five min
utes between classes.
Are your lectures organ
ized so that a student who has
trouble taking notes can end up
with something to study by,
or are your lectures off the
cuff and akin to the telling of
a movie that a friend of a
friend of a friend told you
about? Or do you let happen
what happens in the classroom,
meaning namely for example
some simpleton asks a perfect
ly simple question which you
seize like a hungry pedagogue
and spend the time directing
your detailed and padded an
swer to this poor student for
forty-five minutes, in the man
THE GUILFORDIAN
ner of a certain teacher of Ro
mantic Literature (naming no
names) while the rest of the
class sleeps or doodles in their
notebooks? I can't understand
your lack of organized lecture
material -- after all, its right
there in the book, isn't it?
Ever wonder why your class
is two thirds empty? We soon
learn that you'll be fifteen min
utes late and have nothing to
say, so why come to class? But
you are so pious, you would
say that it is my loss if I do not
attend. Vou are failing me, a
diligent student. I paid for some
one to help me learn the mat
erial, to explain, interest, and
simplify me. I could read the
book myself, but you are the
supplement to the information
in that book. Please do not
rely solely on expensive, de
tailed texts to do your job for
you.
This brings me to my
prime frustration. A teacher of
the caliber I have described has
set the stage in his class for
nonchalance, indifference and
disinterest in the subject at
hand. Then test and paper time
rolls around and the student
faces it with poor notes, due to
poor lectures, indifference and
five hundred pages of detailed
and complicated reading. What
chance do we have unless we
have either a fantastic memory
for what we read or can read
your mind? In addition we shou
lder the burden of knowing this
test is fifty percent of the grade.
Are you too busy to grade more
tests?
However, you get us
poor dumb sons of bitches,
don't you? You grade those
tests, papers with a vengence.
You are a good teacher, aren't
you? After all you had two
As, three Bs, four Cs and twen
ty-seven Fs in your class. But
then again you don't expect
us to do well with you, do
you? None of your classes ever
do, do they?
But I needn't worry be
cause I won't see the test again
until you give it back in six
weeks.
Friday October 20, 1972
Letter to Eds
Governor Robert Scott
struck the proper note at the
Asheville, North Carolina, De
mocratic Fiesta, Sept. 30, when
he urged all-out support for
the entire Democratic ticket
from Court House to White
House. This is more important
than ever before because this
nation cannot even pretend to
have a government OF, FOR
and BY the People with four
more years by Richard Nixon.
He has already brought
the government perilously close
to becoming one OF Economic
Royalists, FOR the Predatory
Few. The present Washington
administration has been and
continues to be wholly regres
sive: Regressive in race rela
tions, in civil rights, in educa
tion, in employment, in the
burden of taxation and in mone
tary .matters. In every field ex
cept financial, military and in
dustrial, Mr. Nixon's policies
have been negative. Every Nixon
policy has been directed toward
the benefit of the privileged.
Relations between the
white and the underprivileged
minorities have been set back for
decades, probably generations,
by Nixon's racist policies. Law
and order in the Justice Depart
ment have been placed above
justice. The underprivileged will
now have to prove innocence
instead of the state proving guilt
as formerly under Anglo-Saxon
legal concepts. In education the
United States, according to re
cent United Nations' reports,
has become second class, lag
ging behind Sweden, France, the
Soviet Union and Cuba. Unem
ployment has greatly increased
while wages are fixed, and prices
and inflation rise. Tax benefits
have been for the privileged
few.
It must be clear now
to the informed that our POW's
can never be free unless and
until the U.S. Government war
of aggression upon the Indo-
Chinese people is ended; and
recent events clearly show that
this war will not be ended until
Nixon is removed from power.
Tom Wicker, New York Times,
was obviously right when he
stated Nixon did not have a
My grade makes no dif
ference; after all it is only my
Q.P. average and grad school
career at stake. It makes no
difference if your test is indi
cative of how prepared or how
much I'd learned -- just as long
as that almighty midterm grade
is in.
If you are one of these
types (naming no names) of
educators, let it be made known
to you that there are good,
hard working, intelligent stu
dents whom you are hurting
and who see you for what you
are and who give you a bronx
cheer and wish they could give
you a kick in the pants.
Sincerely,
(Name Witheld by Request)
"Those who have had
a chance for four years
and could not produce peace
should not be given
another chance."
Richard M.NfccaOcnber9l%B
plan to end the war as he pro
mised in March, 1968, and does
not have one now, except
through bombing Indochina
back to the Stone Age a la
General LeMay.
Surely the mass com
munications media must know
that changing the body count
from white Americans to yel
low Orientals and thereby in
creasing the number of the lat
ter threefold, is not ending the
war; that hiring others to fight
Nixon's war is more cowardly
and dishonorable than using his
own countrymen to fight it.
Why haven't they exposed this
even greater immorality, includ
ing the regressive acts of the
Nixon administration mention
ed above? Whatever the true
answer, it will not absolve them
from non-performance of their
Constitutional duty to inform
our people. For if the American
people knew the real character
of the Nixon administration,
they would overwhelmingly
elect George McGovern Presi
dent in November.
Nothing short of accept
ing Governor Scott's advice of
voting the straight Democratic
party ticket can save our society
from becoming totalitarian.
Even if every Court House and
State House should go Demo
cratic, while returning Richard
Nixon to the White House, all
would nevertheless be lost. Mr.
Nixon has repeatedly shown his
contempt for his oath of office,
the Constitution, the Congress
and the common people. Under
successive Washington adminis
trations, the Congress has been
reduced to a rubber stamp, and
Vyt CjiulforttoA
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the U.S. Supreme Court has
now been packed by Mr. Nixon.
Only a victory by McGovern
in November can save us at this
the most critical period of our
history -- even more critical than
the period of our Civil War,
1861 - 1865.
Hugh B. Hester
Brig. General U.S. Army
(Ret.)
P.S. Mr. Nixon, in a last-minute
effort to end the war in Indo
china, as expected, before the
November 7 election, obviously
believes the American people are
willing to forgive him for his
failure to end the war the day
he became President as he told
C.L. Sulzberger of the New York
Times he could have done. And
all people of good will, of
course, hoped he would do this.
Does he not, in this statement
to Sulzberger, admit his respon
sibility for all those killed,
maimed and wounded, ours and
theirs, since becoming President?
Does this not offer additional
proof of his low opinion of the
common people? The answer to
both of the above questions
is, it seems to me, an emphatic
YES.
I repeat again, we must
therefore remove Mr. Nixon
from public office in the Nov
ember 7 election regardless of
how the present frantic "peace"
efforts of Nixon end. Not to do
this will be a betrayal of Amer
ica's present and future, and
this especially applies to the
youth because of their deep
interest in both the present and
future.
H.B.H.