Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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A Wabash man is probably the least regulated student in the world. Passed down through the years, our one rule states that we must act like gentlemen at all times. But | even the interpretation of this rule has changed over time. Aside from being a gentleman, we can: A have cars. B live off-campus, if we | desire. | C drink anywhere, anytime. The end result: A+ B+C = Girls

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Comps. What can you Say sdDOU be COMps: menar you (honestly) worried about them? That for a month your future hung in the balance as you an- xlously awaited the re- sults? Probably not — a few years ago perhaps, but not now. Of course there were a few guys who gro- veled away, leafing through yellowed CCI notes or pouring over BIO 3 lab manuals. But for the majority of us it was just a pain in the glutimus maximus — one more test of our ability to temporarily cram our heads with information which we can safely discard the moment comps are over. And the fact that they’ve been around as long as anyone can remember is not valid justifica- tion for their existance. Not that comps aren’t worth continuing, but are they worth continuing in their present form? The idea behind giving comprehensive exams is after all, reasonable. If after four years of college you don’t know something about something, then something is wrong. And something ts wrong, but it’s not comps. It’s the people who give them. It’s hard not to sympathize with the faculty, though. Who would want to grade all those exams just three weeks after the hassle of first semester finals and grades? And orals — talk about time consuming! Then its neces- sary to decide whether the student has passed with fly- ing colors (distinction), merely with colors (high pass), or just passed (you guessed it — pass).