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Tuesday, March 8, 1994
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WEIRD: Prison politesse.
PEOPLE UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT
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- The trade association International Business Forms Industries Inc. recently changed its name to The International Association Serving the Forms, Information Management, Systems Automation and Printed Communications Requirements of Business.
- A German court ruled in November that at the prison in Giessen, Germany, guards may not enter inmates' cells without first knocking and being invited in. German law requires prisons to reflect general living conditions outside the prison as much as possible.
- According to witnesses, a 6-foot-4-inch, middle-aged man with a gray beard robbed a convenience story in Perrypolis, Pa., in August. As a disguise, he was wearing a large rabbit head, including large, floppy ears. However, the face had been cut out so
that the robber's face was fully visible.
In 1902, the Pro-Line Cap Co. of Port Worth was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for not having adequate restroom facilities for its female employees. Shortly afterward, according to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed in January 1904, the company, rather than add the restroom facilities, merely fired 30 female employees so as to remove the need.
- In January, an unidentified man
FEUDS
-Sarah Bates, 58, was arrested in Franklin, Tenn., on Christmas day after she allegedly punched her son-in-law Richard Harrington and threw a stereo at his son, injuring him. She was upset because she disagreed with Harrington's decision to let the boy sit at the "grownups" table for dinner.
crashed a road grader into the home of Jeff Bankston in Wilmer, Ala., nearly totaling the dwelling; its sole remaining support was hurriedly propped up with a tire. Jeff Bankston said he had been having a longstanding battle with the man, who had initially become enraged when Bankston repeated a claim he had heard to the effect that removing the valve stem from a tractor tire would prevent someone else from using the tractor.
ULTRA WEIRDOS
- Sharon Church, 24, who lives near Atlanta, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in November for an assault against a 27-year-old male pedestrian. After luring the man into her apartment, she pulled out a butcher knife, stabbed him in the shoulder, screamed at him to have sex with her "or die," ordered him to disrobe, slashed the bed around him with the knife, and repeatedly performed oral sex on him.
NOTES: organization tricks
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"Then you just sit there and doze off and think about other things," McMullen said.
Jared Harsin, Topeka freshman,
said, "When the professor is boring,
you do not take many notes."
Shuttic advised students to avoid the problem of boring professors by thinking about where the teacher is heading. If the professor speaks too quickly, Shuttic suggests students try to note the key words in the lecture.
Another way of improving note-taking is to actively participate in the lecture, he said.
"If you sit further back there is more distraction in front of you," he said.
Shutttie also advised students to sit at the front of the classroom.
"Asking questions helps the learning process whether you ask them in your head or in the class," he said.
William Arnold, associate professor of sociology, has taught at KU for 25
Arnold said another problem among his students was that they often forgot to record headings of lists and to label diagrams.
Arnold said one problem he had noticed among some of his students was that they do not understand what they have written down in their notes.
"When they come to my office after they have done poorly on a test I look at their notes and ask what they mean, but they cannot tell me," he said.
years. Last semester he taught a sociology class with 300 students.
Arnold said a solution to this problem would be to write down the main idea of the lecture instead of trying to write down all the words.
"It is not possible to keep up with everything the professor says," he said.
"If I do a diagram on the board, it will be in the notes, but often it is not
labeled enough, so the meaning of it is missing," he said.
Some students try to avoid note-taking problems by bringing tape recorders to class. But Arnold said he thought this method had drawbacks.
Harsin said note-taking was part of the learning process for him.
"They end up with so much information," he said. "At some point they need to get it down in their own words."
Arnold said that even in large classes he usually could tell which students were taking good notes.
"If I write it down I remember it better, even if I do not review the notes before the exams," he said.
"They write and look up at the right times," he said.
Shuttle will offer a note-taking seminar from 7 to 9 tonight at 4019 Wescoe. The seminar is free and open to all students.
For more information call 864-3477
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