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echo: educator
to: MELVIN BILLIK
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-06-28 21:46:00
subject: Re: Class Size Over-Rated

MB> I taught at a flagship state university (Michigan State University)
MB> in the math dept. from 1969-1972.
MB> There were kids that came to class stoned (either drugs,
MB> alcohol, or just staying up all night).
MB> HOWEVER, MSU has over 40,000 students (I think).
MB> Percentage-wise, it was extremely small -- maybe a dozen students at
MB> most in my 3-year tenure there.
    My father never had these kinds of problems in college teaching in either 
flagship state universities or in a state university that had mainly 
"nontraditional" (age 22+) students, but these problems _abounded_ at two 
small private colleges he taught at after 1975.
    As to whether these problems will exist at a college, a lot will depend 
on its demographics.  If it's a rich kids' college, the kids have more money 
to spend on partying and it shows.
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