"Most people probably skip because they don't want to get up in the morning," Illingworth says. "I'm old fashioned, and I think that being there is better."
Illingworth says that students at Harvard probably skip class less than those at other universities.
"In general, students go to class. Whether they are awake is a different
story," he says.
The Few, The Proud
"It surely is detrimental to the class morale, and that of a shared experience," Rentschler says. His class Foreign Cultures 76: Mass Culture of Nazi Germany frequently relies on the viewing Nazi propaganda films as part of the educational experience of the class.
"If you have a large number of students missing class you want to repeat the material in the next meeting, and you don't get the same intensity that you otherwise would," he says.
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