Re: Syllabi - from Jon Bell

[Allen Brown <brownan@educ.queensu.ca>]

I have just one comment - (see below):

On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Jon Bell wrote:

> Someone said a little while ago that "syllabi are legal contracts", or 
> something to that effect.  Does that mean that someday we're going to 
> have to have our syllabi approved by college legal staff before 
> publishing them?  Whatever happened to common sense?

My guess is that "common" sense isn't all that common, really, and
that the requisite "legalese" (sp?) makes it so.

Allen Brown