When professors complain that their students have become too chatty and casual in e-mail correspondence, some of those students are bound to start grumbling about the generation gap. But others — like Natalie Litera, a junior at Purdue University at West Lafayette — are willing to concede that flustered faculty members may have a point.
In a column for Purdue’s student newspaper, Ms. Litera urges students to go back to the days of seeking out professors during office hours, not inundating them with e-mail messages. "So your friend Jen might want to know that you’re skipping out on class today because you have been puking your guts out all morning," she writes. "But here’s a big wake-up call for all of us: Professors don’t really want to know the details of your illness." (The Exponent)
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