48 - Sunday, May 20, 1990 - North Shore News

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Examiners shouldn't expect food from student

much { — and the other graduate ought to turn any disgruntled feel-

DEAR MISS MANNERS — I am a graduate student in a
department that requires its students to complete a series of
oral examinations, each conducted by a panel of faculty

members.

There has been an unwritten
tradition that the examinee should
bring refreshments, but one of the
members of my examining ccom-
mittee has expressed to me his
preference that I not bring
refreshments to my upcoming oral.

I agree that oral exams should

miss
Manners
Judith Martin

be professional and businesslike,
and that students should not try to
create a cozy atmosphere in an at-
tempt to overcome feelings of be-
ing intimidated. Our department
needs to pay special attention (o
such issues, since we have a targe
majority of female students and a

large majority of male faculty
members.

However, 1 am also concerned
about offending (or at least disap-
pointing) other members of the
examining committee.

Are there rules of etiquette gov-
erning such circumstances, which J
could circulate? I am more worried
about this issue than the actual
content of the examination.

GENTLE READER — Here is a
brand-new ruling from Miss Man-
hers: The custom of having the
student bring the refreshments is
hereby declared invalid. Any such
sustaining supplies should be the
responsibility of the department.

However, you don’t really want
to hand this declaration out at
your orals. The custom of criti-
cizing your examining committee
has never been a useful one.

What you want tc do instead is
to compliment the professor who
told you not to follow the tradi-
tion. Something along the lines of
“Although I would have been
happy to bring the usual refresh-
ments. | want to tell you how

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tivity in suspending the custom”

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