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  1. Xref: sparky sci.space:18250 talk.politics.space:1610
  2. Newsgroups: sci.space,talk.politics.space
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!newstand.syr.edu!SUVM.SYR.EDU!DRPORTER
  4. From: DRPORTER@SUVM.SYR.EDU (Brad Porter)
  5. Subject: University standards (esp. Purdue)
  6. Message-ID: <168C91397D.DRPORTER@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
  7. Organization: Syracuse University
  8. References: <1992Dec22.232911.17212@cs.rochester.edu> <Bzt8Dw.Fzs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec25.130315.12336@cs.rochester.edu> <Bztt8t.9L8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  9. Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 22:45:15 EST
  10. Lines: 17
  11.  
  12. In article <Bztt8t.9L8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  13. hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
  14.  
  15. >The
  16. >universities are giving in to the almost illiterate (at least in
  17. >mathematics and the sciences) high school preparation of the students,
  18. >and contributing to the demise of our academic and research capabilities.
  19. I'm digressing a bit, but I felt I had to respond to this statement by
  20. asking if you truly believe this?  Do you believe that's true of all public
  21. schools, or just the schools in Indian, from which the majority of Purdue's
  22. students come?  I tend to feel it's the univerity's standards that are lower,
  23. not those of the public schools.  If the professors at Purdue have this
  24. low of an opinion of the students, I'm going to have to reconsider Purdue
  25. as a possible school for me (I've been accepted into Freshman Engineering).
  26.                               -Brad Porter
  27. Skaneateles, New York
  28. DRPORTER@SUVM
  29.