EXAM BREAK ISSUE The Thursday, April 26, 1990 vwfi i ^ r""v/ ^> High Road PAGE 2 / ThE CHRONICLE EXAM BREAK ISSUE THURSDAY, APRIL 26,1990 Special thanks... personal sacrifices as student managers will be understood by few To those who worked behind the — but missed enough as if by all. EXAM BREAK ISSUE scenes to make the 85th volume of And lastly, to the graduating seniors Duke's daily community newspaper from among these unsung contribu­ The Chronicle Thursday, April 26, 1990 © a reality...a special thanks! Your tors: Chris Burfield, Kevin ongoing creativity, dedication and Csernecky, Jennifer Phillips and effort are too often taken for Greg Wright — best of luck in the granted. Thanks to you, our produc­ world beyond! tion, sales and business staffs, who Table of Contents each have played critical, though differing, roles in making our first Acknowledgements... Most memorable student excuses year of financial independence possible. Thanks to our award- To Dean Richard White for his en­ win prizes for faculty 4, 6, 8, 31 winning, first-ever special supple­ thusiastic assistance with our ments staff, who with great innova­ contest and to all the faculty who Library Schedule 10 tion and enthusiasm contributed entered. And for their leading roles uniquely to our success this year. with this Exam Break Issue, espe­ Spring Exam Schedule 12 cially appreciated by a certain Summer Exam Schedule 12 And a special tribute to Eric Har- better-rested someone, Linda nish, Carolyn Poteet and Susan Nettles and Pam Packtor. Sleep late Campus Dining Schedule 14 Shank, whose contributions and tomorrow! Academic Calendar 16 Exam Break Issue Staff Gym Schedule 17 Editorial Page Editor Matt McKenzie Letters to the Editor 18,19, 22, 23 Editorial Assistants Pam Packtor Susan Shank, Jennifer Springer Comics & Community Calendar 24 Cover Design Wendy Arundel Classifieds 26, 27, 28 Production Manager Linda Nettles Production Supervisor Charles Carson Crosswords 32 Production Assistant Roily Miller General Manager Barry Eriksen Antimatter 34 Advertising Sales Manager Sue Newsome Advertising Sales Representatives Judy Bartlett Crosswords 36 Betty Hawkins The Far Side 38 Classified Manager Darren Weirnick Fine Dining and Casual Atmosphere at an Affordable Price OPEN 5:00 PM 1644 Cole Mill Rd.-l Mi. off 1-85 • 385-1877 Finley's SeafOOd- Grilled Swordfish Blackened Snapper •Appetizers- Swordfish served with strawberry hollandaise. $11.95 Served with Cajun hollandaise. $12.50 Coquille St. Jacque Shrimp Cocktail Mussels Marinara Onion Rings Fried Shrimp Tender Shrimp Tender steamed mussels, high- Golden brown onion rings A generous portion of shrimp, lightly breaded and Scallops in a dijon cream sauce with mushrooms. $12.50 served on a bed of lettuce lighted with fresh herb Marinara with light breading, served fried to a golden brown. $11.95 Stuffed Flounder with our own tangy sauce. sauce, served with garlic bread, with buttermilk dressing. 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DURHAM PAGE 4 / ThE CHRONICLE EXAM BREAK ISSUE THURSDAY, APRIL 26,1990 Most memorable student excuses win prizes for faculty Way back in the fall semester, excuse for turning this introduction computer-disc problem and could not The janitors always conscientiously when we asked Duke faculty to in late to my editor.... hand in the paper on time. This is a place everything that is slipped reveal their ultimate academic standard excuse, so I have a stan­ under my door on my desk, but I nightmares, the response was less dard response, "Let me have a copy asked them anyway. They had not than enthusiastic — in fact it was First Prize: $150 Gift Certificate of your rough draft an you can hand seen the paper. On Wednesday, she less than zero. But when we tried from Fowler's Gourmet it in tomorrow." She seemed a bit claimed that maybe she had put it in again, this time requesting the startled and said that she did not my box (sure, just like we were told faculty's most memorable student Sinking in the Quagmire have the rough draft with her, but in 1967, "Our boys will be home by excuses, the results were encourag­ There are two approaches stu­ that she could bring it by my office Christmas"). Upon asking my ing — and enlightening! It's appar­ dents use to fabricate excuses for in a few hours. colleagues whether the paper had ent to us now that a student's worst late papers: the preemptive strike That was the last that I saw of her appeared in one of their boxes, I nightmare often becomes a an the Vietnam-style land war. In until after Thanksgiving break. On discovered that the student was professor's favorite academic anec­ the first version, the student packs the Wednesday before break I pulling the same stunt in another dote. all of his or her firepower into a received a note in my box saying class (this was like uncovering the Frankly, we were amazed at the single excuse, hoping to win the that she meant to bring by the notes secret war in Cambodia)! At that ingenuity of the students described paper extension without a retali­ on Tuesday (!) but she had locked point I was ready to flunk the in these stories. In fact, many of us atory strike from the professor. herself out of her room. She lost her student (Congress cutting off funds are kicking ourselves for our own These excuses typically involve keys, the note continued, and her for the war) but I then learned that lack of imagination — and picking deaths in a family computer-disc roommate had already left for break. she was a fifth-year senior who up pointers for missed deadlines yet problems, or illnesses. With the I wondered what she was going to do needed the class to graduate. After to come. protracted land-war, the student about the changes of clean clothes consulting with the dean, I decided But by far the most impressive offers a weak excuse that is chal­ and a toothbrush for the five-day to give her an extension ("peace with features of these entries are their lenged by the professor. To protect break. Also, the resident advisor honor"). In January I finally re­ creativity and humor. Congratula­ the integrity of the first move, the could have let her into her room... ceived a paper that allowed her to tions to our first-prize winner, student is forced to commit more but no matter. As the Vietnam get out ofthe class with a D (the political science professor David troops. This show of force is chal­ experience showed, when one is Saigon airlift). Canon, whose entry was not only a lenged again and soon the student is sinking in the quagmire, honesty is The moral ofthe story: one should lesson in academic excuses, but in sinking in the quagmire.