Wednesday, January 16, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
Page 17
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By Dill Allen
Senior Reporter
An old friend walked by and picked
up the copy of Get Off My Brain I
had laying on my desk as I started this
review.
"I've always wanted to pick this up,"
she said, thumbing through the first
couple of pages.
"Well, you have," I said. "Now, why
don't you just walk right on out of here
with it?"
Actually, the paperback, subtitled A
Survival Guide For Lazy Stu
dents, isn't that bad.
It is cute, easy to read and has some
great puns and quotes. However, the
practical advice it offers could be
obtained for a lot less than its $4.95
price tag.
Book
Review
reaction
basketball Coach Bobby Knight: "All of
us learn to write in the second grade . . .
most of us go on to greater things."
1 suggest you stand in the bookstore
and read this book until a store employee
comes up to you and says, "May I help
you?" Then say "just browsing" and go
to another store and finish the book.
I do not think this book will really
help the lazy college student. For
instance, the first chapter advises to
"attend class, take notes, listen crit
ically." The lazy college student is at
home in bed, borrows notes and can't
hear anything with his headphones on.
The rest of us will think it's a fun
book, but we don't need it.
Another recent publication by a
Nebraska author is Stories and
Poems by Bob Johnston.
This 50-page book is crammed full
with stories and poems about eveything
from alcoholism to nuclear protest as
seen through the experiences of a
Nebraska cowboy.
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The author is Randall James
i.lcCutcheon, a Nebraska high school
teacher who has been named Nebraska's
"Outstanding Young Speech Teacher of
the Year" and "National Forensic
League Coach of the Year."
The book is set up in chapters which
each offer some juicy tidbit on how a
lazy student can do better in college.
Some advice includes sit in the front
row, get to know your professor, get
help from the librarian and learn to
write better papers. And of course,
considering the author's background,
there is advice on how to give a better
in-class oral report.
Basically, it is the same advice you
would get from any high school coun
selor or a book on writing better essays.
Still the book is worth reading. I
read it straight through in about half
an hour and enjoyed it.
My favorite part was when he talked
about getting professors off the track
and timing how long it would take
before they got back to the subject at
hand.
He headed a chapter on how to edit
your papers with a quote by Indiana
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