[BVC-CHAT] Your legal question of the day

[Goodwin, Jared]

Professors' annoyance with external tutoring service isn't anything new.  I always assumed that the reason had to do with the market for educational services and educators' salaries.  What I mean is accredited universities have a sort of oligopoly on providing education to students.  Increasing the supply of educators (in this case tutoring services) has the ability to drive down professors' salaries.  However, as a degree granting institution the market is pretty darn inelastic.  So, this really shouldn't matter all that much.  


-----Original Message-----
From: bvc-chat-bounces at philebus.tamu.edu on behalf of Christopher Menzel
Sent: Thu 9/18/2008 11:29 AM
To: Brazos Valley Cyclists
Subject: Re: [BVC-CHAT] Your legal question of the day
 
What?  Who are the idiot profs that take offense at that?  And why?   
Do they think they are just so good that the idea of their students  
getting outside tutoring is a reproach?  Or that it gives students a  
justification to skip class?  In my experience,  students who look for  
outside help are usually faithful attendees who simply find the  
material difficult and want to improve. More power to them.

-chris

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:18 AM, "Greg Hercules" <moocowherc at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> They are white t-shirts with 4.0 and Go logo and a tutoring time/ 
> date, or they are simply the those 4.0 and Go shirts that are so  
> frequently worn around campus. Who draws the line? Is a shirt not a  
> shirt?
>
> Herc
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Christopher Menzel  
> <cmenzel at tamu.edu> wrote:
> > My friends and I were threatened with charges of organized crime,
> > felony theft, criminal mischief, and told we were going to be
> > expelled and/or lose our scholarships because we rode a little
> > girl's pink bike across a professor's stage during his class.
> > Instead, we apologized, and nothing ever came of it.
>
> That is awesome.  I'd love it if someone did that in my big lecture
> class.
>
> > In this case, as has already been noted A&M zones certain areas as
> > freedom of expression areas and inside class buildings is not one of
> > them.  Whether the t-shirts are "expressive" enough to need to only
> > be worn in those areas seems to be entirely up for interpretation
> > and the people that interpret that are not you guys.
>
> True, but they can't just make stuff up, either.  Around here an
> "Obama 08" T-shirt is enough to set some people off, but I doubt any
> case could be made of it.  So yeah, what was on the T-shirts matters.
> So what was on the T-shirts, Herc??  It sorta makes it hard to assess
> the case without knowing.
>
> -chris
>
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