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VOLUME CVI, ISSUE 11
Inside the Manila Envelope: The Student-Faculty Gap Over Course Evaluations By JENNA MEAD STAFF WRITER
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Students are used to the routine of the large manila envelope carrying course evaluations, but many students do not know what happens to the evaluations after they disappear back into the envelope that they arrived in. Students and faculty do not have the same views of the function and implementation of the course
evaluation system. Once evaluations are collected, professors have a student deliver them to department secretaries. The forms then make it to Vilas Hall and are processed by the Dean’s Office. It is not until all evaluations are processed that any are returned to the department chairs and individual professors. This process can take time considering each semester nearly 10,000 forms are filed.
Professors received last semester’s comments in March of this semester. Grace Huang, Chair of the Government Department, says she reads every single evaluation in her department and finds a very wide range of responses from students. Some feedback is constructive while others are not. “I see more feedback regarding junior faculty, maybe because there are more things to
comment on,” said Huang. Marco Li Calzi ‘18 said, “What’s the point of evaluations? For teachers that have been here 10 years, they are not going to change anything,” citing one possible reason for students to only provide substantial feedback for junior professors who are more likely to respond with a change. Huang uses evaluations as part of an annual review of all faculty CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Chariot for Women App Expected to Compete with Uber
Page 10: Meet the Paris Agreement, the world’s biggest climate change deal.
By ALI PRICE STAFF WRITER
responsive” male passenger aboard, according to communication released to CNN from the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday, April 25. While the singer was rushed to the hospital in Moline, his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure
As I scrolled through my Facebook newsfeed this past Friday while sitting in my friend’s Boston apartment, I came across an article titled “Here’s why women everywhere will delete Uber on April 19th.” I was intrigued, so I clicked on the link and started to read. I had never used Uber before but my friends and I planned to use Uber that weekend, so I thought this article might be relevant. Although Uber is nonexistent in the North Country (SLUber lol), this is not the case in major towns and cities across America and the
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Authorities are investigating Prince’s death with a focus on the role that painkill-
Harriet Tubman to Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill By MIKE GELLMAN STAFF WRITER “I’m sorry Mr. Jackson, I am fo’ real.” On Wednesday, April 20, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew announced that Harriet Tubman would be replacing former President Andrew Jackson as the face of the 20 dollar bill. This release is part of a plan for the first large-scale alteration to American currency in a century. Not only is Tubman scheduled to replace Jackson but plans to add important historical woman and civil rights figures to the 10 and 5 dollar bills were also announced by Lew. These changes include the additions of the 1913 march
in support of women’s suffrage to the back of the 10 dollar bill and Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. Martin Luther King to the back of the five. There has been a fair amount of controversy surrounding these changes, as the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was originally proposed to get axed from the 10 dollar bill he currently resides on. However, an unlikely surge in popularity brought on by the hit Broadway musical, “Hamilton”, won the author of The Federalist Papers many stalwart fans. Even the creator of musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda, lobbied the Treasury on Hamilton’s behalf. Hamilton’s defenders claimed that he is a much more CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
ers may have played into his premature demise, according to a published report from Fox News on Tuesday. Prince’s death came about a week after his private plane made an emergency landing in Illinois, according to CNN. The emergency stop was due to an “un-
Class of 2020 Expects High Yield By KATIE KULL STAFF WRITER St Lawrence University has been growing in popularity over the past few years, with the Class of 2019 being the largest yet. As class sizes grow and housing becomes more lucrative, more and more rising sophomores are missing out on the opportunity to choose their rooms and are put on waiting lists, as first-years must fill the rooms first. I reached out to Admissions to hear what both students and officials alike had to say about this growing rate of SLU students. Jeff Rickey, Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, says, “Because this year’s deposit deadline is May 1 (and students can also postmark it by that day if they
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Payson Hall, the home to Admissions on campus.
are mailing theirs by snail mail), it really is too early to draw any conclusions about the class. (About a third to 35% will deposit in the last five days!)” This statistic is intimidating as so much of the University’s future has yet to be decided. This year, St. Lawrence re-
ceived almost the same number of applications as last year and admitted fewer students. because we are looking at an incoming class of 650, instead of the 680 who enrolled last year. This year SLU admitted 42% of all applicants, compared to the 46% last year CONTINUED ON PAGE 10