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...through and make all the courses in the catalog bypasses, but we'd like to have about four departmental courses added at the end of each Core section," Hurwitz said. "It's not crazy or extreme, and there won't be any arm-twisting of professors...
That was the problem: so often, the natives didn't know who these people really were, or treat them with the deference they felt they had earned. In one of the excellent catalog essays for "Exiles and Emigres," the writer Lawrence Weschler compares their idea of themselves to "Roman nobility in the rustic provinces...as stubbornly patronizing and aloof as the locals were sometimes naive and gauche." The dachshund story sums them up--as it does the situation of most exiles in America in the late 1930s and '40s. Two dachshunds meet on the palisade in Santa Monica, California...
...being aggressively recruited by other schools; one suitor is offering a 100% raise in pay.) To sweeten the pot, universities reduced the amount of time professors were required to spend performing such loathsome tasks as teaching undergraduates, serving as advisers and managing administrative operations. Courses proliferated: the course catalog for my senior year was 271 pages; today it's 375 pages. Yet the number of full-time arts-and-sciences faculty members remained stable. Graduate students and adjunct faculty increasingly shouldered the load, while professional counselors and administrators and their retinues of support staff took over tasks once within...
...tidy as Clinton was sloppy, Lott dressed as crisply as a Sears-catalog model, showed up on time with his homework done and protested nothing. Neither the civil rights movement nor the Vietnam War made much of an impression on him. "I and my classmates came up in more of a positive, upbeat, 1950s kind of great time," says Lott. "We didn't think about national issues...
Therefore the registrar needs at least seven weeks to turn around a catalog, meaning that under a system of pre-registration, departments would have to submit course descriptions nearly two months sooner than under the present system, which would entail a major change, says a staff member in the Registrar's office...