A Dissenting Opinion

For seven agonizing minutes the lecturer and class at Friday's lecture for English 213 were obliged to observe the painful progress of Gerard Couper's sloth-like chalk across the blackboard of LB1.

That Mr Couper felt his information to be of spell-binding significance was indicated by his failure to have the word of democracy already displayed before the appointed hour of noon.

My objection is that time to be devoted to studying Hamlet was wasted on an issue entirely separate. The attendance at the lecture suggests that I am not alone in my eagerness to learn about Shakespeare and I hope I am not alone in objecting to this abuse of the meagre time allotted to assist such learning.

I ask only that those of us who wish to learn of the plays of Shakespeare be left to do so while those who would wrangle over assessment and terms requirements do so in their own time.