Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clemons says that she supervises the college students but encourages them to use their own initiative in the classroom. "Let's face it--this is a very qualified group of volunteers," she says...
...Review struck again when three staffers marched on Cole's classroom after one of his lectures, bringing with them a camera and a tape recorder. Confronted with members of a publication which obviously had malevolent intentions--a publication that once printed that he "...looks like a worn out brillo pad..,"--Professor Cole became enraged. During the ensuing shouting match, Review staffers took photographs of Cole's outburst and tape-recorded him cursing. The Review reported that Cole broke the photographer's $230 flash unit, although that sum inexplicably grew to $300 in an interview two days later...
...blame for this incident rests not with an inaccessible faculty member, but rather with students more interested in trials than reasoned academic dialogue. To avoid future debacles, students must change and become willing to listen to theories that deviate from their own preconceptions and engage in debate within the classroom when those theories trouble them...
...walk into a classroom, and you see kids in fur coats and $100 gym shoes," says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano. "They're trying to tell their peer groups that they've succeeded." In some cases, ghetto parents do not discourage young dealers. "They just look the other way," says Juvenile Division Probate Judge Y. Gladys Barsamian. "Some of the kids say they do it because they are the breadwinners in the family...
According to The Dartmouth, the hearing concluded that the four students entered Cole's classroom on February 25 with cameras and a tape recorder and one of them, Baldwin, the editor-in-chief of the Review, asked Cole to read aloud a letter. The letter responded to an earlier Review article which criticized Cole's class...