Archives for the ‘Letters to the Editor’ Category

Curved Grades

By Exponent Brief • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Letters to the Editor

I think this campus is too reliant on curved grades, including both students and professors. I believe every professor’s goal should be to grade their students without a curve, instead of readily or intentionally curving their students’ grades each semester. At the college I transferred from, there was only one class that I took where […]



NIU Thoughts

By Exponent Brief • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Letters to the Editor

As I sit in the dorm listening to Don Henley’s “New York Minute,” I cannot help but think about the things many of us take for granted on a daily basis, such as friendship or the love of a family. For those of us who are no longer living at home, we easily get caught […]



Voting & Valentine’s Day

By Exponent Brief • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Letters to the Editor

I would like to commend the Exponent for their delegate coverage in the Feb. 14 issue. I follow the delegates and election process closely, but I know that a lot of college students do not have the time or ambition to do so. The Exponent did a great job of providing “at a glance” coverage […]



Smoking policy

By Exponent Brief • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Letters to the Editor

I am in full support of a smoking ban in all academic areas on the UW-Platteville campus. I do not have a problem with smokers in general; I have a problem with smoke. Even walking down the sidewalk into a cloud of smoke causes me to cough and gag. As far as arguments for allowing […]