Maire Gurevitz is a senior studying Political Science and History.

Based upon my three years of being a student at Butler University, I have noticed two different philosophies that professors have when it comes to evaluating, assessing and ultimately grading students. The drastic differences between these philosophies ultimately hurt students.

I did not realize this until one of my professors shared his thoughts on grade inflation to a small group of students before class. He told us that more students are getting “A’s” and “B’s” than they did when he first starting teaching at Butler a long time ago. Imagine that you purchased a repeated service from a company. After purchasing the service you expect the service to be rendered each time that the service is paid for. If the company fails to provide the service at any point you expect to be compensated by the company.

One way to think of Butler University is that it is a business and the students are the paying customers. Compared to the K-12 public school system, students choose to attend Butler. Children are essentially coerced to attend a public school or they and their patents face penalties. On April 16, I returned to my apartment in the Apartment Village at about 4 p.m. It was sunny and 75 degrees and I was loving the fact that I was done with class for the day. Finding myself to be the first of my four roommates to arrive home, I proceeded into my bedroom where I started to send some e-mails.

Ten minutes later, I looked up to find a man standing at my bedroom door. I remember thinking to myself, “I am about to be raped.” Friday night a man died right in front of my house.

You may have seen the story on Channel 13. He was riding a motorcycle and wrecked into a truck. A few weeks ago, I commented on a story that I had read in my diocesan newspaper, "The Catholic Moment," about the bishop’s call for catholics to boycott the Susan G. Komen Foundation Race for the Cure, on account of the fact that the Komen Foundation gives grants to Planned Parenthood so the organization can provide mammograms and other such services having to do with preventing or catching breast cancer early. However, Planned Parenthood is also an organization that will provide women with contraception and access to abortion, therefore going against the “pro-life” dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.