Dear colleagues, This is part plea, part rant, and part lament. The style manual adopted by the department is APA, and it is expected that student compliance with its use will be required and enforced by ALL faculty. This is not happening, and some of us teaching advanced courses are getting at best inconsistent citation crap on assignment papers, which forces totally unnecessary copy editing and reteaching of APA. There is absolutely no point in requiring this manual if we are not all enforcing its use, and it makes teaching 709 a misery. Would you please make students use it and lower their grades if they don’t, so we can cure this? It is sending an inconsistent message to students and becoming infuriating to those of us who are trying to get them to use it properly. Please make APA compliance on papers part of the grade. Thank you for what I hope is a cathartic moment! Mary K. Chelton