Hour-long queue for lectures
Undergraduate psychology students who like to mingle have
an advantage these days. There are 1050 students registered,
while the university’s largest auditorium only holds 500 people.
There is chaos an hour before the lectures start, making a
free seat hard to come by. A lot of students have had to return
home in disappointment, after having spent an hour waiting
to get in. Tone Bubandt says she has to attend Tuesday’s morning
lecture rather than the afternoon alternative Wednesdays due
to her work schedule. She is once again attending this course,
which is the most popular one at the university, to improve
her mark. Marianne Høyland is a fresh student this year, and
she compares the circumstances to those usually experienced
at rock concerts. Of course, one anticipates a lot of students
will drop out of the course soon, so that it will not be this
bad for long.
New student centre
The new, long-awaited student centre will incorporate a
swimming hall and aerobics facilities to make it a more popular
location. Today’s building is clearly outdated and only holds
a canteen, auditoriums, the book shop and exercise facilities
apart from offices. In the new plans, students will be offered
posh cafes and restaurants with outdoor facilities. The cafeteria
today may be shut down due to its poor earnings. Although
close to sixty percent of the old structure will remain, the
new building will not be easily recognised. Large glass walls
and tall ceilings will see to this. The new student centre
will be ready in 2006, depending on funding. Next October,
there will be a new national budget, and construction work
will hopefully start.
New methods for grading lecturers
If you want to show how you really feel about your lecturers,
there may soon be a decent chance. This autumn several institutes
will give students the opportunity to rate professors on a
number scale. The results will be presented graphically, to
make it easy to compare the scores of the various departments.
It is pointed out that these measures will be valuable only
if good follow-up work is done.
Alexander Kemp
04.09.02
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