Re: Rescue me

[Robert Herdegen]

At 08:41 AM 12/4/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>> Subject: RE: Rescue me
>> From: "Hetzel, Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> I never cease to be amazed by the requests that students bring to me. I
>> had one student who took a course with me in the summer, failed the
>> course because he only came to class about 25% of the time and didn't
>> complete any assignments, never responsed to my requests for extra help,
>> and then came to see me 3 weeks after grades were turned in expecting me
>> to take his late assignments so I could turn his F into a higher letter
>> grade. The part that shocked me was that he was genuinely
>> surprised--and then angered--when I would not accept his late work.
>
>Rod (and maybe some others),
>
>This one is up your theological alley.
>
>An athlete came to me last year after the final with a 72% and wanted to
>know what extra work he could do for a "B."
>
>When I denied his request (as I always do), the next day he came back to
>my office and told me he had prayed to God to soften my heart.
>
>My response was: "So you asked God to get me to change the rules
>and help you get something you didn't earn. Is that right?"
>
>God was not reintroduced in his subsequent pleas for a break.
>
>Happy finals,
>Jim G
>

My favorite final exam desparation story came from the minister of the church that sits in the middle of our little campus, and who serves as the college Chaplain as well. The minister was going through the church early one morning before the beginning of one of the exam times, and found a student at the front of the sanctuary rubbing his pen on the cross. When asked what he was doing, the student replied that he was about to take an exam in a course that was particularly challenging for him and that he needed all the help he could get. He came back later to inform the minister that it had apparently worked, as he had done well on the exam. Maybe God is more responsive to pleas for help or leniency than are we....

Bob Herdegen



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Robert T. Herdegen III
Elliott Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
434-223-6166
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