Why not send a note home to whoever is paying the tuition, and mention that the quality of the student's education is suffering due to negligent coeds? Or maybe we should just have Starbucks pay the bill, since they often provide the contraband. On Nov 13, 2008, at 3:00 PM, caut-request at ptg.org wrote: > Send CAUT mailing list submissions to > caut at ptg.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/caut_ptg.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > caut-request at ptg.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > caut-owner at ptg.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of CAUT digest..." > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: coffee spills..... (Zeno Wood) > > From: "Zeno Wood" <zeno.wood at gmail.com> > Date: November 13, 2008 2:20:58 PM EST > To: caut at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [CAUT] coffee spills..... > Reply-To: caut at ptg.org > > > What were the consequences? Fines, restriction of access privilege? > > I agree that left to their own devices, the students will bring all > kinds of stuff into the practice rooms. I play piano cop (good cop or > bad cop, depending on my mood, caffeine intake, etc.) at odd times, so > they don't know when I'll show up. (there are also a couple of > temperamental faculty members who take it upon themselves to do some > patrolling when they feel like yelling at someone) I also have the > short version of the piano policy posted at eye level in each room. > > Unfortunately, we don't have real consequences established. The worst > it gets is that I'll take a piano out of commission for a couple of > days after an infraction is found, to clean it, etc. That, and I give > people mean looks and hint at some horrible sort of retribution. > > Best, > Zeno Wood > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:04 PM, <wimblees at aol.com> wrote: >> In general, students are not going to obey any kind of "rules" >> about bringing drinks, etc, into practice rooms, unless the faculty, >> and especially the chair of the department, make it clear that this >> is not allowed. >> >> That is what worked at UA when I was there. On the first Friday of >> the semester, all students and faculty met at convo, where the rules, >> and consequences, were explained. With a few exceptions, it worked. I >> also had the authority to tell students to remove drinks, etc. >> >> Wim >> > _______________________________________________ > CAUT mailing list > CAUT at ptg.org > http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/caut_ptg.org > Joe Wiencek, RPT NYU -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2879 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081113/08c1d680/attachment-0001.bin>
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