Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playwrighting, and Tennessee Williams is the professor Emeritus, and Sam Shepard is the radical prof with the cowboy boots and the hash pipe, and Neil Simon the humanities lecturer with perfectly organized presentations and polished anecdotes, then Christopher Durang '71 is the weird kid in the back of the classroom with the odd possessed look...
Although the Happy Hacker has yet to see more than a few successful applications of personal computers to the classroom, educators across the country have been writing software to assist and drill their students in everything from Algebra to Zoology. Kinko's copies, the Happy Hacker's favorite 24-hour copy center, has been the sponsor of a nationwide exchange program in which people at colleges across the country can trade various educational software. Look for their booth at the show and then make sure that you distract your chemistry professor should he attempt to gain more information. After...
Chung says his father did not pressure him into business and management, but let his son decide for himself what he wanted to do. Chung decided to put what his father taught in the classroom into practice...
...coach in the film, like Hayes at Ohio State, once punched a player and disappeared. But the object of his assault, much more like Knight, was his own player. Knight regards himself as a teacher with a classroom full of difficult students, though he is no missionary. "The state of Indiana pays the corrections officer one salary and me another. Let him work with the incorrigibles." Knight only treats them like incorrigibles...
...handling the broom. He was performing those janitorial services at N.Y.U., when classes were shut down during a '60s antiwar protest. Hook was an early opponent of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam but characteristically went on teaching. At one session, he recalls, "three raucous S.D.S. students burst into the classroom, shouting 'Strike! Everyone out!' No one moved. I turned and shouted, 'I am placing you under a citizen's arrest,' not knowing exactly what that meant, and the students fled." The incident is emblematic of the man, always in opposition to the prevailing tempo and, in the end, more durable...