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From: grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Robert Weiss)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Cheat sheets
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:00:49 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

In article <1992Nov12.000314.14108@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> matthews@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Matt Sullivan) writes:
>In article <40899@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> dlou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:
>>
>>In one of my classes, the professor said he would allow an 8.5"x11"
>>cheat sheet on the midterm exam.  He was also saying that in the past
>>years, creative students brought 3 and 4 dimensional 8.5x11 cheat sheets.
>>Since this was an engineering class dealing with problems in n-space,
>>he allowed it and chalked it up to creativity.
>>
>>One idea I had for a cheat sheet is to overlay multiple pages on one
>>cheat sheet using a different color for each page.  Then at the exam,
>>just whip out your color filters (like those goofy 3-D glasses) to
>>view each page.
>>
>>Anyone else have any ideas for a good cheat sheet?
>>
>
>Do you really need more than both sides of a piece of paper? If so, the
>only suggestion that I have is to print it out. I've found that the
>printer can print lots smaller than I can. You might have to use a
>magnifiying glass to help, but that's no biggie. 

  Actually in high school, we were once allowed a single 3"x5" notecard.  Those
notecards are actually pretty thick paper, so one of my friends carefully
split the notecard *down the side* so that he could write on the "inside"
of the notecard- doubles the surface area pretty quickly!  This is a bit hard
to describe, since you usually don't cut a notcard this way.  Ok, here's an
analogy; you would cut the notecard like you cut open a fish, not vertically
or horizontally.  You have to be careful not to actually to completely
tear-off a section; you want it connected so it's still the same notecard.
  You can do the same with 8"x11" paper, especially if it is the higher
quality, thicker stuff you can pay a little extra at Kinko's for.  After the 
rest of us started copying my friend, I was able to actually split a notecard 
into three pieces instead of just two.  (Hint: start tearing the card at the
corners, where the card splits most easily.)

  --Greg

Ah, Mr. Ealy's Chemistry class at St. John's; those were the days.
Newsgroups: soc.college
From: clancy@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca ( raymond lecours  clancy)
Subject: Spanish university e-mail address
Summary: Need help!!
Keywords: Complutencia (sp)?
Organization: EE Lab, McGill University EE Lab, Montreal
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:14:11 GMT

         Could someone please tell me how to find out where/how to get
information and e-mail address for spanish universities.  I'm 
particularly interested in 'Complutencia' (sp?) in Madrid.


         Thanx.
From: buccim@newton.hartwick.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Fraternal Bashing
Date: 15 Nov 92 18:53:18 -0500
Organization: HARTWICK COLLEGE

Attention on all net users, I am wondering what in God's name prompted this
debate on Fraternalism.  Why all the Greek bashing?  I have a nagging suspicion
that someone did not get a bid to pledge and thus decided to bash the Greek
system, displacing his rejection.

I am a Brother of Alpha Phi Omega - The National Service Fraternity, and Kappa
Omega a local social Fraternity.  For those of you wondering, you can be a
brother in both a social and a service Fraternity.

Anyway, would someone be nice enough to write me a detailed account of how this
debate started, I am REALLY interested.

For those of you speaking out of ignorance, it shows.

In Leadership, Friendship, and Service
Brother Michael P. Bucci
"Van Gogh"
buccim@hartwick.edu
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Personals we all love at UCR
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:15:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov19.021516.771
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <24036@galaxy.ucr.edu> santafe@watserv.ucr.edu (michael a parisi) writes:
>Again, from the Highlander (11/17/92):
>  
>JENIFER-96 96 96 96 96 96 96 96
>96 96 96 96 96!!!! I knew you could
>do it! Now if we could just get these
>dumb applications out of the way.
>Love,K.P.
>
>Comment:  I told you so.... See how dumb these sorority bitches are?
>          They can't even spell "69" the right way!

Possibility number 1:  Jenifer is class of 1996.
Possibility number 2:  (applies to "funk" below also): 
                       the newspaper screwed up or censored it.

Let me be the first to say that we don't know Jenifer is in a sorority.
And besides, sororities do a lot of philanthropy and have been around since
1776 and you watch too much Animal House.
-- 
ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
From: sme3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SCOTT MATTHEW ESTRIN)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Football Rivalry
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:31:45 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>>    Well, tomorrow's the day for the longest-running football rivalry in the
>>country: the famous Lehigh-Lafayette game.
>
>How long has it been going?

We just played our 128th game.

>Well, after yesterday's near-riot after the Big Game up in Berkeley, I
>for one would love to see that "tradition" stop.  Not the rivalry -- I
>_love_ the hype and the talk and the rallies and the bonfire and all
>the stuff that adds up to a real rivalry.  What I would love to see
>end is the violence that seems to accompany every Stanford-Cal game,
>particularly those up in Berkeley.

I never said I support innocent people getting hurt (those who vountarily rush
the field with hopes of bashing the other team and end up getting bashed
themselves, I have no sympathy for), but for decades, both teams rushed the
field (originally for the goalpost), and this year the tradition stopped.
That, I thought, was disappointing.  (but a sophomore I spoke to said that I
shouldn't be.  She said last year's postgame went too far and it was nice not
to repeat it)

                - Scott

                
-- 

{======================================================================}
{ Scott M. Estrin, PhD.  /\     "If it's broken take it apart and look }
{ (Well, maybe someday) <<>>    around.  If it's not broken, take it   }
{ sme3@Lehigh.EDU        \/     apart anyway.  Then it will be."       }
{======================================================================}
From: biesanz2024@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: marquette address?
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:24:07 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

        Does anyone know (for sure) the internet address of marquette
university? 
        I have gotten lots of different and all wrong answers.  I am trying to
get a hold of an undergrad student at marquette.

        SO.... if you truly know it and aren't guessing please e-mail.

                Thanks....   just hate wasting time on guesses.

                mike b
From: buccim@newton.hartwick.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: COHERENT FRATERNAL DEBATE
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:58:32 GMT
Organization: HARTWICK COLLEGE

OK, LETS GET THIS OUT IN THE OPEN.  I AM, AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN WILLING TO
DISCUSS MY VIEWS OF THE GRREK SYSTEM.  SINCE I MADE MY LAST POSTINGS, I HAVE
RECEIVED QUITE A BIT OF MAIL.  SOME OF IT IN OPPOSITION, BUT MOST OF IT
SUPPORTING THE GREEK SYSTEM.  ANYONE WHO WISHES TO HAVE A CLEAR REPRESENTATION
OF BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE MAY WRITE ME FOR ONE OF THE MORE CREDABLE RESPONSES
TO MY POSTINGS.  IN ADDITION I WILL SEND A COPY OF MY REPLY TO THAT PERSON.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, CONTACT ME AT MY EMAIL ADDRESS AND I'LL SEND IT RIGHT
OUT, FASTER THAN A GDI CAN SCREAM HAZING *GIGGLE*!

LONG LIVE THE GREEK SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN LEADERSHIP, FRIENDSHIP, AND SERVICE
BROTHER MICHAEL P. BUCCI
ALPHA PHI OMEGA - NATIONAL SERVICE FRATERNITY
KAPPA OMEGA - LOCAL SOCIAL FRATERNITY
BUCCIM@HARTWICK.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Fraternal Reality From a Greek
From: censtad@perdita.gac.edu (Christopher B Enstad)
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:21:43 -0600

In article <1992Nov18.001845.11979@midway.uchicago.edu>  writes:
> In article <1992Nov16.150004.36@newton.hartwick.edu>  
buccim@newton.hartwick.edu writes:
> >Well, Well.  (etc.)
> 
> I'm curious why it is every pro-frat argument trots out the same tired  
old
> storyline ("you're just not in a frat", "we do a lot of philanthropy",
> "we've been around since 1776", "everybody joins a frat", "we never  
haze",
> "anybody who doesn't like frats watches too much Animal House") often
> with the exact same wording.  It's just plain eerie.  I've seen almost
> this exact same post in campus newspapers on two different coasts, and
> this is the third or fourth time I've seen it on the net.  Is it part
> of the standard brainwas^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpledging process?
> 
> It's a remarkable effort at misdirection and mischaracterization. Yeah,
> fraternities do a lot of good.  But they also do a lot of bad.  And the
> bad they do can be easily alleviated by going co-ed and eliminating the
> pledging process without at all interfering with the good that  
fraternities
> do.
> -- 
> ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
> standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
> the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637


Well then , i'm curious as to why every anti-frat argument sounds like  
this one?  Frats do bad, bad, bad!!!!  That's bullshit.  Most frats do  
good, SOME do bad and they are unfortunatley the ones who get the  
publicity.  What good would being in a frat do if there weren't some kind  
of pledging process first?  It wouldn't mean as much... or don't you know  
this ted.
Newsgroups: soc.college,soc.net-people,news.answers
From: ndasmith@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Noah Smith)
Subject: Re:college papers
Followup-To: soc.college
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:05:30 GMT

  I really like your idea about a college paper exchange, but it may too
expensive to consider.  Meanwhile, I put up a notice on this newsgroup, as
well as on bit.listserv.sganet, called MAKING COLLEGE A BETTER PLACE. Tell
your friends to post new articles about exchange ideas and different ways
of doing things at colleges to that letter, or to mail me at
ndasmith@casbah.acns.nwu.edu    Thanks a lot!
From: buccim@newton.hartwick.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Fraternal Reality From a Greek
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:00:04 -0500
Organization: HARTWICK COLLEGE

Well, Well.  It seesm that those who have been excluded from Greek life are
seeking to make our lives miserable by attempting to instill in us a sense of
guilt for not having invited you into our midst.  I guess your view of us being
exclusionary has blinded you to the realities of Greek life.

To begin with, the majority of philanthropic work done in the surrounding
communities is performed by Greeks.  Secondly, if other campuses are like mine,
you would be hard pressed to find an organization not led by Greeks or with
Greeks making a positive contribution.  On my campus, over 30% of the student
body is Greek affiliated - at some campuses it approaches 90%.

Lets end some misconceptions.  Fraternities bagan as academic organizations. 
The first Greek letter fraternity was Phi Beta Kappa founded on Decemver 5,
1776 at the College of William and Mary.  As such Greeks have very high
academic standards.  On most campuses, Greeks have cums above the student
average.  we are not beer swilling ooffs.  We may be social, but we are so in
the sense that one of our purposes is to build strong social bonds for future
years, and to develop necessary social skills.  We are NOT rapists.  Greeks
recognize that in the past we had a poor image, but we have done much to
correct these wrongs.  As such, we are at the forfront of education in the
areas of sexual assault, alcohol abuse, academic success, and social tolerance.   

I can't fully discuss all the benefits of Greek organizations at this time.  I
will admit that there are some black sheep out there, but to characterize and
generalize all Greeks as John Belushi - Animal House lunatics is inaccurate and
unjust.  If anything, it makes you hypocritcal!

If anyone wishes to discuss the benefits of Greek life and to share your
experiences contact me via email at Buccim@hartwick.edu.  If you wish to debate
the supposed evils you may feel free to contact me as well.

In Leadership, Friendship, and Service
Michael P. Bucciu
From: dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: grad strike at UC berkeley
Date: 18 Nov 1992 06:59:02 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Nov14.224536.13956@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
>
>    Is Berkeley unique (or almost so) that it allows its graduate students
>to strike with "university consent".  I.e., that there are rules governing
>a graduate student's right to strike.   Is this unusual or typical of
>most schools?
>
>--
>Charles Lin
>clin@eng.umd.edu

I'm not sure that I fully understand your question but I wil try to answer.
UCB is most definitely NOT allowing its Graduate Student Employees (GSEs)
to strike. This is not some kind of symbolic strike that they are 
considering; there is no 'university consent' involved at all. There are
no rules  about any "right to strike.'"  The fact is that the University
and the AGSE have two very different and conflicting philosophies on how
the GSEs are to be treated. The (potential) strike, which has been postponed
until Thursday morning, if it happens will last until either
		A) the demands are met or an agreement is reached, or
		B) the GSE members vote to cease striking.
So you see this could potentially last quite longer than anyone would like.

As for other schools, I can only tell you that there are three colleges
which recognize graduate student employee unions, one of them being 
the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and I can't remember the other two.
I don't know about any kind of strike "agreements" but I thought that 
striking was supposed to be something you did when you _can't_ reach 
agreement...?


-- 
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s/ Daniel Bucher dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu  Cognitive Science, Class of '94(ish)
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Newsgroups: soc.college
From: georgj@cary106.its.rpi.edu (Jim George)
Subject: How do I get to telnet at Col.
Reply-To: georgj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:42:46 GMT

Keywords: Need to find how to get ont to telnet at Col.

I need to find how I can get on the telnet service at Colorado so I can e-mail addresses.

Thank you
jim
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Fraternal Reality From a Greek
From: censtad@dion.gac.edu (Topher the Gustie)
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:35:05 -0600
Reply-To: censtad@nic.gac.edu   enstad@gacvx1.gac.edu    

In article <1992Nov23.174617.24203@news.acns.nwu.edu>  writes:
> In <1992Nov23.084802.2227@ncsu.edu> jagreath@eos.ncsu.edu (JOSEPH ALAN  
GREATHOUSE) writes:
> 
> >I just love having somebody else tell me what to think and how to think  
it.
> >It isn't facist administrations that I worry about, it is facist  
individuals
> >such as yourself.  As for getting rid of a Greek system, I would hate  
to imagine
> >the lawsuits which would be filed against a public institution for what  
would
> >amount to discrimination based on membership in a Greek Letter  
Organization.
> 
> Joseph,
> 
> A hypothetical question for ya... If a school agreed to ALLOW its  
students and
> faculty members to be part of 'greek' societies, but did not recognize  
these
> societies, would you still consider it discrimination?
> 
> I ask because I was recently incensed when my university offered grants  
and
> loans to help out 'ailing' greek houses hurt by a deferred rush  
decision.
> 
> I say, let people join what they want, but don't ask the school (and my
> tuition money) to support it.
> 
> --ADAM "KEYS" LASNIK from Northwestern

Why not... wouldn't you expect the school to help out an organization  
which YOU belonged too?  Remember it IS a loan.

One of the pluses of going to a large school is to be able to select from  
a diverse group scene.  The University supports in some way all school  
recognized groups, in part with your tuition money, can you say that you  
have done EVERYTHING that your school has to offer?  I mean maybe one  
third of my schools students have bothered to get an account to access the  
NeXT computers, does that mean that those who don't have accounts should  
demand that their money not be spent on these computers?



Just wondering.

Chris
From: hduncan@cs.ucsd.edu (Hal Duncan)
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
Subject: Re: Statement of Purpose...
Date: 19 Nov 92 07:04:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, UC San Diego

clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
<
<    Personally, I don't think the statement of purpose is the key
<to admission.  For example, if your grades are wonderful, and
<some famous prof. says you are the next Hoare, then you could
<write garbage and basically get accepted.   Conversely, if you are
<a lousy student, I don't think the most creative of SOP's will help.
<Possibly, in a close situation, where your interest may be in one
<area, and there aren't enough people applying to that area (say within
<computer science) could you "sneak" in.   

I agree to some extent.  There are enough people with wonderful grades
and glowing references out there that (some) schools can afford to reject
someone when it's obvious that the research area isn't a good match.

This is, I think, the best thing for both parties:  based on what I've
seen so far, I think attending a school that doesn't devote any research
resources/money/projects to your topic would be a frustrating and pointless
experience.  Of course, if one is willing to lie about one's area of
interest, not only on the statement of purpose but also through three or
four years of research and while writing a dissertation -- just to attend
XYZ University because of the name...

Anyways, a question for Charles (or anyone else):

What do you think about the statement of purpose/plan of study statement
for fellowship applications?  Do you feel that it's still mostly a
"borderline" consideration?



Hal
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: gradinfo@cs.columbia.edu (CS Graduate Information)
Subject: Re: International Applicants to US schools
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:22:00 GMT

In article <9211131619.aa04947@q2.ics.uci.edu> theresa@ics.uci.edu writes:
>REG:  International (foreign) applicants to US Universities.
>
>PLEASE NOTE that each university is different, and so these statements
>may not apply in a general fashion.
>
>The University of California requires that each "foreign" applicant show
>that they have a certain amount of money in reserve in order to cover the
>costs of education, supplies, and living expenses.  [...]

This is an INS requirement for a visa, not a school requirement.




-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: ckurs-24@orvillezdv.uni-mainz.de (Teilnehmer am C-Kurs WS 1992_93)
Subject: Re: CS EMAIL LIST
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:05:50 GMT

hi, 
I have a simple Question, what is the subject of the cs email list ?
Please email me or post here !
 Thanks,
Peter
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: hm@cs.brown.edu (Harry Mamaysky)
Subject: where is berkeley ?????
Organization: Somewhere East or Somewhere West
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:37:50 GMT


Could some one email me the address of a U Cal Berkeley server.

Thanks plenty.

Harry.
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: mef@cs.washington.edu (Marc Fiuczynski)
Subject: EE GRAD EMAIL LIST
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:46:23 GMT

This one should have the schools associated with the correct
countries.  

If there are any EE people reading this, and your school is not on
the list, please send me an entry.

Marc

USA --- USA --- USA --- USA --- USA --- USA --- USA --- USA --- USA --- USA
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo       	EELIST@ohm.elee.calpoly.edu
California-Santa Barbara		kerry@xanadu.ucsb.edu
California-Berkeley			gradadm@hera.berkeley.edu
Columbia 				mansfld@ctr.columbia.edu
Missouri - Rolla			red@ee.umr.edu
Northwestern 		 		grad@eecs.nwu.edu
Purdue					eegradof@ecn.purdue.edu
Rochester				gradinfo@ee.rochester.edu
South Carolina				gradinfo@ece.scarolina.edu
Southern Methodist 			jkb@seas.smu.edu
Utah					gradinfo@ee.utah.edu
Worcester Polytecnic Institute		fjlooft@ee.wpi.edu

Canada --- Canada --- Canada --- Canada --- Canada --- Canada --- Canada 
Calgary					grad-studies@enel.ucalgary.ca
McMaster				findlay@power.eng.McMaster.Ca
Simon Fraser				gradpgm@cs.sfu.ca
Toronto					cherian@ecf.utoronto.ca
Waterloo				gradinfo@sunee.uwaterloo.ca

Newsgroups: soc.college.grad
From: crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford)
Subject: Re: GRE scores
Originator: crawford@boole.mitre.org
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:00:38 GMT


In article <ELM.92Nov18150229@terrorism.berkeley.edu>, elm@cs.berkeley.edu (ethan miller) writes:
> In article <1992Nov18.205328.24401@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
> =>[...] The percent of applicants admitted, they'll probably tell you.
> =>You can (I think) expect to have about three times that many having
> =>been given admission, however.  What usually happens is that all the
> =>bright students apply to the same set of schools, and they can only
> =>choose one.  So, you often see that some school will say they took
> =>25 students out of 700, but the truth is closer to 70 or so, and
> =>that only 25 decided to go.
> 
> The actual "success rate" depends on the school.  At the best schools,
> a higher percentage of admits actually come.  For Berkeley last year,
> it was around 50% or more.

Did this include MS applicants?  It's my experience that the numbers in
the Petersen's guides often aren't too accurate when it comes to CS,
unless they include both MS and PhD applicants.

You might know already that CMU usually accepts only 6 of 100 CS PhD 
applicants, and CalTech only 2 or so of 100.  I think many schools report
percentages which are overly optimistic (like 3/10 when it is actually
1/10).  You might look at the U Illinois grad admissions article which
is frequently posted to soc.college.gradinfo as an additional source of 
facts (they're pretty choosy).

-- 

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|                                                 7525 Colshire Dr., MS Z421
| N=1 -> P=NP           703 883-7940              McLean, VA  22102
Newsgroups: sfu.mba,soc.college.grad,soc.college.gradinfo,alt.grad-student.tenured
From: ekaas@cs.sfu.ca (Erik Kaas)
Subject: MBA rankings needed (Canada)
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:48:39 GMT


I know this has been requested before, but could someone please post
the rankings of MBA schools in Canada?

I am particularly interested in UBC and SFU, and how they
compare to other Canadian and American MBA schools.


Erik...
Newsgroups: soc.college.grad