NOTES FROM ACADEME

Time for a Change

By DON TROOP

Okmulgee, Okla.

I'm in a hurry to meet Stanley McMahan at 7:30 a.m. on a Monday in May. The lead instructor in the watchmaking program on Oklahoma State University's campus here, he has a couple of rules about student tardiness: One minute late is an absence. Four absences and you're out.

But I'm neither...

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