06-04-2014, 09:08 AM
I agree wholeheartedly, FarmBoy (as you wish).
For the heck of it, I checked Vanderbilt's academic calendar. They finished spring finals on May 1. They do have something called Maymester--I'm not kidding--which is apparently a four-week mini-summer term. Summer semester proper began yesterday.
Oh well, some folks have complained that quarter schools like Stanford and UCLA have an advantage in football and other fall sports, since a decent number of games are played before fall classes begin. I remember having a conversation with semester-school folks who thought that true freshmen at quarter schools should be ineligible to play any sports until those freshmen actually attend their first college classes. Of course, the easy solution would be to enroll them in a few units of summer school.
For the heck of it, I checked Vanderbilt's academic calendar. They finished spring finals on May 1. They do have something called Maymester--I'm not kidding--which is apparently a four-week mini-summer term. Summer semester proper began yesterday.
Oh well, some folks have complained that quarter schools like Stanford and UCLA have an advantage in football and other fall sports, since a decent number of games are played before fall classes begin. I remember having a conversation with semester-school folks who thought that true freshmen at quarter schools should be ineligible to play any sports until those freshmen actually attend their first college classes. Of course, the easy solution would be to enroll them in a few units of summer school.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)