So why doesn't someone do something about the testing center? We've heard plenty complaints -- standing in line for an hour and a half for a test that we fail anyway is hardly instrumental to an education. How can they expect us to get a date, let alone get married, if we have to spend all our money on late fees?
Here's what we should do: 1. Set a limit on how many tests can be offered a day, and make it mandatory for professors to check a general testing center schedule before setting their agendas. That way, not everyone would have to fight with biology 100, American Heritage 100, math 110 or any other b'zillion-member GE.
2. Make the professors pay a fee when they don't comply with #1. True, that sounds harsh, but really, don't you think that kind of motivation would be effective? Besides, then there would be no reason to charge us.
3. Set up a big-screen TV in the lobby to take our minds off the menacing future. Personally, I'm convinced that relaxation is the key to good test scores, and what better way to relax than to watch KBYU's commercial-free 'Little House on the Prairie'?
I'm sure if we work together on this, these innovations will, once and for all, nip this problematic testing center in the bud.
Kendra Patterson
Twin Falls, Idaho
Michael Perkins
Centerville, Davis County
Casey Shirk
St. Charles, Md.