May 11, 2009

Margie's Table Deadbeats Ruining it for Everyone

Here's a scandal for you, CUNY.

For the first year ever, there are significant handful of people with outstanding debts to Margie's breakfast table despite her repeated entreaties, despite the email that went out to the entire student body saying that the "special book" was closed as of April 14, and despite the fact that we're supposed to be grown-ass adults who know to pay back our debts. Most surprisingly, she reports that the majority of the deadbeats are 3Ls. For shame! For anyone feeling above the law, Charles Johnson assures us that this will go down on your permanent record (i.e. character and fitness). You don't want to be the jerk who ripped off the sweet granny with the coffee, do you? DO YOU?

It doesn't matter whether you can't stand Chock Full o' Nuts coffee or the weird fish sandwiches provided by the lunch vendor, there's just no denying that Margie and Karen bust their humps to keep us fed for next-to-nothing salaries. The "special book" is a service which they don't have to provide, and which rumor has it certain associate deans have always wanted to nix. It would seem that this is the perfect opportunity to put the kibosh on a service that I know has kept me fed and caffeinated on many, many occasions. Don't fuck it up for the rest of us! Just pay your $2.50 and move on...

So in the spirit of presuming people innocent until proven guilty, please check in to make sure your account is settled. They are gone, daddy, gone after Thursday morning, but really -- is there any excuse for waiting that long?


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May 5, 2009

Cheating

What are people's thoughts about what to do in a situation where you have reason to believe that a classmate is about to cheat on say, a closed-book in-class exam? (in no way is this question meant to imply that there is cuny-wide issue with cheating.)

The academic integrity policy on pages 16-19 of the handbook are of little guidance in this area. There does not seem to be a duty to report but should we? There can be some severe consequences but only after a fact-finding process.

Stay out of it?
Don't stress yourself before taking the exam?
Report?
Confront?
Something else?


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