On the face of it, LB's argument looks unanswerable. But  from what I 
remember of students in the dome (not all of them) is that there was
a lot of 
sheer laziness and dopiness around. What some of them needed was a
good 
kick in the backside and a reminder to actually do the practice. In
my 
experience, if you do seize on the tiniest impulse to move around and
to hop, 
that actually does get the bliss moving around inside you, and this
promotes 
more of the stuff. It jump starts you, so to speak, so you're no
longer just sitting 
there like a big lump of inert matter. So while grading students on
how much 
they hop may seem senseless and a distortion of the teaching, it may
in fact 
wake people up and possibly do some good. 

--- In [email protected], "L B Shriver"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 Meanwhile, certain fundamentals of The Knowledge have actually been 
> compromised by the University. For example, the principle of
innocence in 
practice—
> absolutely foundational as far as I'm concerned—was completely
trashed by 
the practice of 
> grading students on their performance in the Domes, where they are 
observed by faculty 
> and accorded a performance rating based on how much they hop. Does 
anyone seriously 
> believe that a student who hasn't hopped until the last minute of
the session 
won't jump 
> up and down once or twice for the sake of the grade?






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