If you have the opposite problem, place the pillow on your desk in front of your face. These suggestions will prevent red spots from staining expensive college furniture and carpets. Those of you who tend to believe everything you read may wish to peruse a copy of Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics by Michael Wheeler. We will attempt to avoid the lies and damn lies, but we will not avoid the statistics. There are several available research reports that may be of interest to you.
Students are like flowers, sometimes they bloom and sometimes they wilt.
We tend to believe that students who drop our classes have wilted, but perhaps some students drop classes for good reasons. Starting this Spring, students who withdrew from a class in person after the census date were asked to state a reason for the drop. In addition, the admissions office attempted to reach a sample of other students by telephone to determine their reasons for dropping. The results are listed in the table below. If students are like flowers, then perhaps faculty are the gardeners.