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Campus Editorial December 2,1992 page two One of ray friends remarked as she was leaving for work that she was preparing to make her pilgrimage to the green lot. We juniors in Poteat must park in the green lot now since the parking lot called the “pit” was snatched for senior parking. Our walk to the “pit” was only two to three minutes, but now our walk to the green lot is nearly ten minutes. This change of policy was not in the best interests of everyone on the Meredith campus. At first, we accepted this rule change, think ing the seniors needed the spaces, but the seniors are not using this parking. The first day the “pit” was restricted to seniors, many former “pit parkers” saw only five cars parked in the “pit.” Thinking the seniors hadn’tcaught on yet, we assumed they would soon come to use the “pit.” How ever, as the days passed, we still saw the “pit” empty as we passed to pull into horrible spaces in the green lot—far from Poteat Dorm. These empty spaces waiting to be grabbed (but not being grabbed) armoy us Poteat dorm residents. Yes, seniors deserve privi leges, but they need to take advan tage of them. Most seniors have never parked in the “pit,” and do not do so now, even with the rule change to provide them more spaces. With seniors having choice spaces near their dorms and also the lot beside Poteat, they need no more parking. If so, the “pit” would be full everyday. It is now never full, usually having only ten cars in it. Be fore, the “pit” was always full of mostly jun iors’ cars. Ac tually, the green lot is more conve nient than the “pit” to seniors living in Barefoot. However, the “pit” is ex tremely convenient for Poteat Dorm residents (mostly juniors), and these students used the “pit” before the change of policy. No see EDITORIAL page eight Letters to the Editor Meredith Herald Editor In Chief Amity Brown LayoutEditor -„..TraceyRawIs Boslne&tM»t»gero,KjniHaslaoii Cc^y Editor.,,,. Finley New!tEdU0r...«..«..«.»,BefhUjwiy Features Editor.StmaB Koihatkar Sports Editor.*, .Amy Whitt Advisor Nan Miller Reporters „„..„„...„..iTancesPate, Trista Schagat, Julie Smith, Kate Stewart, Sara Maulisby, Cbri.stina Peoples, Sand» Muss, IraciLatta, Kimberly Zneker, Jackie Webb Contributing Writers-,., Mitchell Brown, lenaifer Hartig, Traey Humi^brey, JUaum Davenport, Pr, Butgundge Winz Teehnicat Advfeor Laura Paveoport Edltoriiil Policy The Meredith BeraJd i* published by the Cotlege throughout dw atBdeank yeitf, 1t]W o funded by the eoHege and thraugb adverhsing. The Herald retains the right net to publish matewsls containing personal attacks, insults, ridicule, or Uhelous stateoients, All letters to the eduor mist be signed. The opinions expressed m editorial columns do hot necessarily teftect (hose of the college adndnlstretion, faculty, or student body. Letters to the Editor PoHey Everyone in the Meredith comnmnlty is inyued to write a lettrar to the editor. AU published tetters must be typewntteu with Contact name and address tod trfephone number. All letters mnst he signed by the author, tmc names will he withheld upon' request, I am writing in response to the professors’ debate of Meredith’s grading scale in the Point/Counterpoint article last week. I strongly agree with Dr. Novak — I feel that Meredith needs to incorporate plus and minus grades into the grading scale. I know that there have been many thimes that I have been on the borderline of a grade and received the lower of the two, yet someone at the lower end of the letter grade receives the same grade. I feel this does not show my hard work and ef fort to achieve the higher grade. I know that all too often it seems that students are more interested in their grade than what they are actually learning, but the grade system is there to reflect the student’s work and achieve ments. Therefore, I feel that a grading system needs to be as precise and as accurate as pos sible. The grading system needs to be changed not only to reflect the student’s achievements pre cisely, but to help students with scholarships and honorary soci eties. Many scholarships require students to maintain a certain GPA. If the grading system in corporated pluses and minuses with point values, it would be much easier to maintain that re quired 2.5 or 3.0 GPA with the help of a 2.25 instead of the 2.0 we would receive as the grading system stands now. And it would also be easier to meet qualifica tions for honorary societies that require a certain GPA to be rec ognized. In response to Dr. Huber’s argument, he equates the accu racy of a grading scale with that of a bathroom scale. Sure a bath room scale measuring to the near est milligram would not be of much more use than those we have today, but you’re talking about a scale that measures from one to about 3(X) pounds, with out much difference between each mark. We’re talking about a grading scale with only four letters and approximately ten points between each letter. There ’ s not much of a comparison there. And I want to know where all these students are that are getting A’s! Dr. Huber states that the most fre quently awarded grade at Meredith is an A. Maybe those A’s show up as students reach their upper years of college, but as a sophomore, I haven’t known many people with GPA’s close to a 4.0 yet. In closing, I would just like to say that the students of Meredith should fight for the most accurate grading system possible. That sys tem would have to include a plus and minus scale with points to be incorporated into the average for the GPA. Jennifer Cranford Sophomore addresses housing My questions are directed at the Dean of Students. I am very disturbed about what happened during the summer with all of the room changing. Because there were too many freshmen enrolled at Meredith, the Dean of Students moved all the upcoming sopho mores from the first floor of Brewer Residence hall to make room for the extra freshmen. And that was all right, but what I am distressed about is the fact that my roommate and I didn’t even know where we were going to live until move-in day. The fact that my roommate and I were, at one time, supposed to live on the fourth floor was not an inconvenience. But what incon veniences us is the fact that our telephone calls and our mail are still being sent to the room on the fourth floor when we now live on the third floor of Brewer. We un derstand that the Meredith Cam-tel has us registered wrong, but the switchboard is still giving out the wrong number. We have been get ting calls for three or four different girls, and the people that call say that the switchboard gave them the number. I can understand that the phone numbers could get mixed up see LETTERS page seven
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