Evaluations from February 11, 2003

Topic: Service Learning/Where Do You Stand?/The Eye of the Storm

Rank today's presentation from 1 to 4 (1=totally useless and 4=Very useful)

1. Overall evaluation of class: 3.8

2. What was the most useful or meaningful thing you learned or insight you gained during the session?

• The grass is always greener when it comes to how you are discriminated against.
• both sides of views
• Viewpoints are so different and we really need to listen to everyones.
• I was able to voice my own opinion
• answering social questions about yourself-abortion, etc.
• People may change their views when an issue becomes personal and emotional
• It was interesting to see how quickly the children turned against each other
• That everyone is very opinionated & it is very easy to generalize!
• I learned that people are still oblivious to how prejudice(sic) they are.
• The most useful thing I learned was that you can voice yur opinion and its ok to feel that way
• How easily people can change their mind, when a different point of view is expressed
• How individuals in the class look at the world & how they think the world looks upon them.
• The differences of opinions
• Many people have the same opinion as me on certain issues but for different reasons, and its intersting to see why they feel a certain way.
• That everyone has the potential to hate
• The right answers are hard to come by.
• Discussion of war really upset me. Now I want to learn more. I feel so blind towards the situation
• I liked the part of separating the class into groups or sides of an issue.
• How diffrent(sic)people really are and on the other hand side similar
• That some people have very strong feelings about some issues while others don't.
• I really liked the "stand up" speaking out your opinions I used to do that in my peer leadership class and I really enjoyed to hear different viewpoints.
• The standing exercise
• The most useful thing I learned today was how easily people's opinions changed once a personal element was introduced.
• How strong stereotypes exist in this class
• What people have what views and how I'm gonna have to give everyone the same chances.
• the "place" for certain words and actions
• That certain light-hearted "jokes" to one person can actually hurt another.
• How some people complain about racism, +then make racist comments themselves
• The movie was so eye opening I could not believe just by changing the eye color people's personalities changed.

3. What question(s) remain uppermost in your mind as we end?

• Why is race still more controversial than class + gender?
• how do people feel when they are picked on?
• Why people use racism as a crutch.
• Will there be a war
• What happened at the end of the Jane Elliot experiment?
• War
• Why do people look down on other people no matter what race, gender whether you have blond hair their (sic) considered airhead and people that dress gothic alternative are considered Devil worshipers.
• What will I choose for a voice?
• What will happen on the 2nd day in Jane Elliot's class?
• None (2)
• What next class going to be like
• Why do people continue to discriminate
• what does the rest of the class hate
• Why are poeple offended by another persons feelings.
• I believe there is reversial (sic) discrimination why are there all black colleges, what were to happen if there was an all white college?
• What type of voice do I use for my voice journal
• N/A
• No questions
• If the children in the video remember the experience later on in their life.
• what "voice" I will choose
• Can people ever get over the stereotypes in their mind?
• How can these topic be discussed objectively?
• Will I really be able to make a change in the way I think?
• What individual boundaries do people have.

4. What was the "muddiest" point in this session? (In other words, what was the least clear to you?)

• Homework
• my choices in the pro/con discussions
• The journal of the "other self."
• The intense argueing (sic)
• why people generalize.
• The Homework
• Service Learning
• How we are going to each get a chance to make points if raising hands is rude. It is like a reflex at this point.
• None
• Choosing a side of the fence
• The argument about war.
• Again the syllabus questions on the "voice"
• Probably when the person came in to talk abut the special voluntering (sic).
• How people have such definite opinions+think they are right?!
• The class was very clear
• Do we write about every class in the journal or just 1 per month?
• What the main topic was, viewpoints, service learning, Discrimination, etc...
• I had no problems with today's class
• I don't like how we switch topics so fast
• Really do not understand what the point is to the voice journal. We should voice what we feel. That is what makes us all unique.

5. Other comments:

•  good class-MORE TIME:-)
• Really enjoy this class and helps one voice there (sic) own opinion.
• This is a wonderful class so far.
• Great class.
• I liked this class a lot. I felt more comfortable + involved.
• I really enjoyed the exercise where we split into "yes" or "no"groups
• learned about service learning-good point.
• none
• this is the only class I didn't sleep in today
• From either the ice-breaker or talking to people in discussion, I recognize students walking around in hallways, and I'd know who they were.