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Skriven 2015-03-16 19:22:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: changes
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 03-12-15  20:32 <=-

 RH>> Too many teacher work days and early dismissal times factored
 RH>> in--some of those need to be reconsidered.
 NB>> Those could be places to make up the snow days, I suppose...  :)

 RH> They are, to some extent. The final ruling for Wake County was that
 RH> year round students would make up on some Saturdays and other odd
 RH> times, traditional calendar students would make up on the first 3
 RH> days of spring break. No matter how they went, they couldn't please
 RH> everybody. 

Especially families that had scheduled trips away for the spring
break...  Things like that can make one glad that one's kid(s) are grown
and one doesn't have to deal with that sort of headache any more... :)
 
 RH>> The year I started Houghton, they started a semester that ended before
 RH>> Christmas break, 3 week January term and semester that ended in early
 NB>> That seems to be a rather usual semester system nowadays...  RIT just
 NB>> recently switched to that instead of their traditional (but considered
 NB>> out-dated now) quarter system...

 RH> I know Roberts was on a quarter system when Steve went, don't know if
 RH> they are now or not.

I'm pretty sure they've been on a semester system for quite a while
now... I've had a couple of nieces go there, one for nursing a while
back and the other for physics (combined with Mechanical Engineering at
RIT)... the latter lived with us for a good chunk of the time... it was
definitely semesters then for Roberts... and I'm pretty sure also for
the earlier one... :) 
 
 NB>> Family style would probably have seemed more intimate, cozy,
 NB>> whatever... but having more flexibility certainly can be helpful,
 NB>> especially for busy college students.... ;)

 RH> Everything was served pre plated, had student wait staff. I don't
 RH> recall if seconds were allowed, how that was dealt with. Tables were
 RH> set for 4 people, a waiter would have 3-4 to "man".
 
It puts me in mind of certain nursing home dining rooms...  ;)

 NB>> Did the quality of the food suffer...?
 NB>> Or was it about the same, but with the more choices...?

 RH> TBH, it's so long ago, I don't really remember. I think it actually
 RH> got better once we switched to the campus center dining facility.

Maybe they hired better cooks for the main cafeteria...?

ttyl        neb

... Black Holes are where GOD divided by zero..

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