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The first and shifting to high volume If the book is out-of-print and in the Yellow Pages and most obvious alternative is to paperback sales or else by the library doesn’t have a expect to see some new ones become illiterate—to forego becoming specialist stores copy, chances are that a used cropping up within the next forever the pleasures of dealing only in rare and bookstore will year or so - especially if the ing into a book. In fact, valuable books Some used bookstores also economy gets any tighter is so obvious an alterna Now, however, with paper buy up publishers' over »tive that is best forgotten im backs costing nearly as much prints, copies of books which Ashley Montagu once wrote mediately or more than hardbacks cost the puhhshsr over-estimated that "A civilisation may be A second possiblity is to dia twenty years ago, the shift is and consequently over judged by the number of its out the old library card and turning back around and used printed These are new books, used bookstores ” Perhaps a go prowling through the bookstores are gradually re sold at a fraction of their bit of an overstatement but •tacks Many people across turning to their communities original coat. certainly a valid point / / 2 M arch 17, 1975 editorials Our first discovery was How does one learn when Ding-dong, the witch that the class was the atmosphere in which he- Dear Editor, Faculty and enormously large for a she is set is loaded with Student Body: language class (there contempt and anxiety? After ain't dead ••• weren’t enough seats in the all, how would you feel after The controversy of the room for everyone during looking over at your neigh foreign language require the first couple of weeks). bor’s test paper who has had "Governments, no more then individual men, ere infellible." ment has been brewing here Secondly, we learned that at two to three years —William Godwin, 1793 at IUPUI for the last three least a dozen of the students experience and seeing 95’s, It’s an interesting reflection to note that in little more than years at least. The basic in class had had previous 97’s, and 100’s every week two decades the art of witch hunting has done a complete about argument seems to be the French instructions ranging while your scores are bearly face. From the Senator McCarthy days of hunting for Sin and rationale of ten (10) hours of from one (1) to five (5) passing or failing? Or how Corruption among the Communists In Our Midst, we now have foreign language in certain years. And finally, and moat about bearing the instructor the public and various interest groups looking for Sin and Cor departments before one can frustrating was the realiza say “ now you students who ruption among the Government Around Us. attain a degree, while such a tion that the instructor’s have had French before will Nothing has changed so drastically, people are still called requirement is not stipu intentions, her superiors not understand this...” and soon before tribunals, their actions questioned and their lives ex lated in other departments withstanding, was not so thereafter listening to the posed to the public eye But we have to ask if perhaps the Blind of the university complex. much to teach us beginners experienced students ing Light of Truth isn’t blinding people on both sides of its Furthermore, such a French (as the Bulletin respond to words and beacon requirement for non states) as to cater to the gram m ar questions which It is curious to note that people abhor most in others that language majors has been several students with prior you have never heard—as which they must abhor in themselves. The only difference is in questioned as an issue in study. In addition, it does not you sit dumbfounded. Well, their willingness to excuse themselves and condemn the other itself. appear at this point that the we think you get the general fellow. Corruption and cover-ups are ugly things to deal with no instructor's primary idea. And no doubt some of matter where you find them and when found in the upper levels However, our argument is concern has anything to do you are saying, “ well all you of government our reactions are those of horror and disgust. of a different nature, though with our comprehending the guys have to do is study But consider the taxpayer who cheats on his 1040 Form, the necessarily related. The material which we have more and you’ll be o.k.” student who cheats on his mid-term, the husband who cheats on problem stems from our covered as opposed to cover Please don’t be misled. The his wife Isn’t it amazing that we expect our elected and ap original consideration to ing the specified chapters problems go beyond simply pointed officials to somehow be so much better than we our enroll in a first year French regardless of whether we studying for we are spending selves9 And isn’t it curious how repulsed we are when we dis course (F 101-Elementary learn the contained material anywhere from 15 to 30 hours cover to our complete dismay that they, like we, are merely French).