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...also considered establishing a panel to review independent work requests. Glen W. Bowersock, associate dean of the Faculty, said yesterday CUE may vote on the proposal designed to curb abuse of independent work at its next meeting...
...tutorial legislation--which would require every Faculty member to teach a minimum of one tutorial a term--makes "realistic" demands on the Faculty, Bowersock said on Tuesday. "The amount of time professors believe they will have to spend on tutorials is overdone," Bowersock added...
Some professors remained skeptical. Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, told the Faculty Tuesday that he believed Bowersock's reforms, combined with the demands of the Core Curriculum next year, would place "too heavy a burden" on professors. He asked his colleagues to oppose the legislation...
...most Faculty members came to Bowersock's defense. Wallace T. MaCaffrey, professor of History, supported the reforms, acknowledging that in the past professors have allotted minimal time to tutorial instruction, "Students must have the impression that a professor's capacity to teach tutorial vanishes with the onset of middle age," he added...
Summing up in words reminiscent of Bundy's caveat 21 years earlier, Bowersock stated, "It's not my style to make threats, but neither are we willing to pass legislation that won't be enforced...