For the past decade, when a student at the University of Georgia has wondered what time a class meets or where a lecture is held, chances are he or she has turned to a Web site called the Key. That’s just what campus officials want: They created the site as a catchall for data on courses and professors.
But the administrators certainly didn’t intend for the Key to take on what has become its most popular role. The site, which includes in-depth details on professors’ grading histories, quickly became a surefire way for lazy students to look up gut courses. (One wonders how profs with a penchant for giving out A’s felt about their courses’ newfound popularity.)
Campus officials took down the grading histories last week, arguing that course cherry-picking was becoming a serious problem. But students, it seems, can be moved to activism when their workload-to-leisure-time ratio is at stake: After a week’s worth of protests, the university relented and let Georgia’s Student Government Association take control of the beloved service. (Athens Banner-Herald)
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