Remember who you work for, please 

A telephone call, a letter; heck, even an e-mail. 
 
You would think that students who are paying to attend an academic institution like ASU are worth it. But somebody up top apparently doesn’t view it that way. 

As the registration season nears, it is important for all students to know that the university can cancel the classes that you so desperately need to take in order to graduate and not even tell you about it until you walk into an empty classroom at the beginning of the semester and read “CLASS CANCELLED” written on the chalkboard.   Something like this happened to more than a few history students at the beginning of this semester when their classes were cancelled this summer unbeknownest to them. 

There is an unwritten agreement between the students and the university that is obviously being overlooked here. 
 
Students pay tuition to keep the university running, and in turn, the university offers classes that the students need to graduate.  When the school can’t come up with their end of the bargain, the least they could do is let the students in the classes know. 
 
The only way to effectively describe Michael Ackerman’s and the other history students’ situation (see front page) is to compare it to a bad check, written by the university to the student. 
 
Had Ackerman’s tuition check to Appalachian bounced, he would have been charged 20 to 30 dollars and would have received nasty letters from the Student Accounts office.  However, the school writes Ackerman a bad check and he is supposed to grin and bear it.  Now that’s scary. 
 
If such an injustice can happen to students with no repercussions to those in charge, all the students at Appalachian are in deep trouble. 

The registrar’s office says that they merely inform departments of the cancellations and it is up to them to inform the students. There is nothing the university can do about this. Their hands are tied. 
 
Yeah, and the check is in the mail. 
 
This merely sounds like another case of somebody up above forgetting that it’s the people down below, the students, that are the most important people around here.