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wclarkson · Site Admin Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 38

I want to guage student opinion on the recent 'Live Chat' by Dr. Cowen. Personally, I felt the responses were a little lacking. But, I am biased because I view this decision as a big step back. I hope that we can come together as a college and show Dr. Cowen ways to save engineering.

brocktice · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 5 Location: New Orleans, LA

Was there anything new? I missed the chat.
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jmikowski · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 121

A transcript of the chat is going to be posted on Tulane's website by Monday. I'm sure following that we will have a post as well. (must likely a link too) I'm also going to refrain from commenting on the chat as I do not wish to jade anyone.
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Scott Kensell · Guest

Someone asked about the numbers of who would be affected by this change, and I thought Cowen gave a seemingly inaccurate answer. He said only about 4 % of the Undergrads would be affected by this change... there is no way that can be true... aren't there more Freshman and Sophomore Engineers.... and I think this decision also really affects the "would-have-beens" in the future which can't be expressed in a number...

Jweglein · Guest

I agree, Cowen's 4% estimate seemed very lowballed. I'm going to refrain from commenting further because i came in 10 mins late.

MechE · Guest

Not only did he not respond to my question, but he also seemed to dance around and not give solid answers.

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Fink · Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 8

Is it really a "transcript" when parts are changed?
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wwalkeri · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 136

Can you explain what was changed?

jmikowski · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 121

Fink,

I looked through the screen shots you were awesome enough to provide, while there were some small changes there were nothing major changed. Mostly I found that the answered were just edited for clarity and readability. I do kinda agree that perhaps it should have been left alone, however since nothing meaning wise was altered (that I could find) I decided not to make a big deal out of it. If I missed a change that does change the meaning of what was said or puts a new slant on the message or such please let me know. Thanks for your support!
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Computer Engineering '07
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Fink · Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 8

Like Justin said, there wasn't anything much, but I'm bothered by the fact that they would change anything but blatant grammatical errors.
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ggreen · Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 52

Just a note, Tulane's site says there's another chat Friday, 16 December at 5 PM. Make sure you guys prepare some great questions for Cowen!

wwalkeri · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 136

And submit them in advance or they prob wont ge too them

ET097 · Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 41

and dont submit 'i hate you i hate you i hate you' as a question. as one of the EE majors im friends with discovered in last weeks chat, cowen will not answer that.
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khanegan · Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 1

how do you post questions for the upcoming chat? I've clicked on the link in the upper left corner of the site but it doesn't seem to work.