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Subject:	Re: Student excuses and bad roommates
From:	"Maples, Chuck" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Teaching Breakfast List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2014 23:54:59 +0000
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As an undergraduate, I had a roommate who never woke up when his alarm rang.  

Unfortunately, his alarm always woke me up, and then had to wake him up so that he could turn his alarm off and I could go back to sleep. 

 I even bought him a louder alarm clock--to no avail.  

So I can easily understand why someone might just reach over and turn off a roommate's alarm.

On the other hand, I'm somewhat puzzled by the anachronism of the "alarm clock" in any current student's story, since I'm sure 90%  or more of our students use their cell phones to wake them up.  They don't even own watches.
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From: Teaching Breakfast List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Fleisher, P. Jay
Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 2:40 PM
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Subject: Re: Student excuses and bad roommates

The response should the same as an empolyer's response.  "I am docking your pay and next time, you're gone".
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From: Teaching Breakfast List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Greenberg, Jim
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 1:36 PM
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Subject: Re: Student excuses and bad roommates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUfLIgnXnE


From: Teaching Breakfast List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Withington, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 1:21 PM
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Subject: Student excuses and bad roommates

Colleagues,

If my students are to be believed, then a very large portion of them have roommates who turn off alarms which do not belong to themselves.  Thus facilitating the target student over-sleeping and missing class.
It has to be the #1 excuse for ‘over sleeping’ that I get.
[Whatever happened to grouchily waking the roommate up with much noise and complaining?]

If true, then does  Student/ Resident Life need to sponsor education sessions on personal property issues?
If not true, then why do students feel this is a great (repeatable & reusable) excuse?

Anyone else?

Dr. Jennifer Withington
Asst. Professor of Biology
SUNY Oneonta
116 Science I
Oneonta, NY  13820
607-436-3421

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