I assume most of you went to North Texas and therefore took English 101. Go back to that classroom in your mind. Now, try to remember the amazingly stupid questions and answers around the room. People who didn’t understand a verb or a noun or who looked at the professor funny when they said “subject verb agreement”. I can’t tell you how many times I thought to myself “HOW THE HELL did you get a High School Diploma, much less get the required SAT score (which at the time wasn’t very high, but you had to have SOME Language skills to get the score…) to get into this University?!?!?!” I’m no rocket scientist, so I’m not trying to cast stones here, but there were some real “barely got a pulse” types in my freshman classes. …but I think the system works. By the time I got into the 3000 and 4000 level classes, I was mostly surrounded by good, intelligent, thoughtful and hard working people. (COBA… some of you Liberal Arts guys might not understand what I meant by “Hard Working”… JUST KIDDING!) The losers weed themselves out, and those getting their degree are well deserving and have done the work to earn it.