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Date: Oct 27, 2005

Campus Morale

Date: Oct 27, 2005

P Girl,
Remember, you may need more than one paragraph.

I'm still not sorry about the D. You deserved it.

Dr. Gramattica Grace

Date: Oct 27, 2005

Eng 101 Instructor wrote:
Remember, you may need more than one paragraph.

Moreover, any journalist worth his or her respective saline knows that no paragraph should have more than two sentences & that the best paragraphs have only one sentence!

Date: Oct 28, 2005

If you are referring to the online version, it's a formatting problem. The actual article isn't just one paragraph.

Date: Oct 29, 2005

Sadly, some college journalists tend to remember that the Associated Press Stylebook does say that one or two sentences is appropriate for writing in the journalism field (actually, your paragraphs should not be longer than three or four lines on Microsoft word), but they forget that the AP did not intend for the styleguide to be used for writing an English or History paper. I can't complain too much about their mistakes though since I once used the AP style version of writing numbers in a History paper by accident.

Date: Nov 7, 2005

I guess people at USM tend to worry more about being smarter than the other person. All that was said on this post is that "I know how to write and you dont" So what if there were grammatical errors, I have seen a lot of misspelled words and paragraph issues in the AAUP posts.

Why did anyone not talk about the attitudes that some employees do seem to have? Some get moved around and promoted for having these kinds of attitudes to get them out of one office into another.

A lot of student frustrations start because of they way they are treated just trying to get signed up for classes.

Date: Nov 7, 2005

I started this thread for a discussion of the content of the article. Those who can't think for themselves got hung up on a formatting problem of the on line version that didn't appear in the print version. Please kill this thread until intelligent life returns to this board.

Date: Nov 7, 2005

Social Worker wrote:

I started this thread for a discussion of the content of the article. Those who can't think for themselves got hung up on a formatting problem of the on line version that didn't appear in the print version. Please kill this thread until intelligent life returns to this board.

While one cannot put all the blame on SFT for this situation (everywhere there are disgruntled, unhelpful employess), we are seeing the "trickle down" effect of the Thames cadre. This started with the abysmal treatment of the deans, went on with the abuse of upper level staff (who left in droves--the Dana Keith, Sam Thomas competent folks), continued with the faculty (as demonstrated by the email monitoring), and has now permeated every portion of the university. The tone of a workplace is set by its leaders.