Junior Sylvester Harvey said that in most of his classes the professors take regular attendance, particularly in the ones where the class is structured around discussion. After more than three years at DePauw, senior Liv Sonstegard can only remember one professor who didn't take attendance. She's taken several classes where grades would be docked if a student missed class too often. But, Sonstegard said, she doesn't feel that attendance should be required. But they should at least have that choice.
Many professors do give that choice to the students.
Biology professor Wade Hazel doesn't take attendance at the beginning of either his lecture or his discussion classes. And since I don't take roll, I guess that means that I think the students should have a choice. Senior Christen Kennedy has found that in her biology classes the professors are usually laid back about attendance. She said they let students choose to attend class. If students skip too often, they could suffer severely due to the nature of the subject matter.