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...says. “That offers it a little protection in a way because no one is interested in it.”THE PROFESSOR In spite of poetry’s declining popularity in mainstream culture, Valentine does her part to keep the genre vibrant in the classroom for new generations of writers.Valentine held her first teaching position at Barnard in the spring of 1968, in the midst of political tumult. After a month of classes, Vietnam protestors at Columbia shut down the university, she recalls.“It was a very interesting time to be a student...
...instill virtue and democratic values by the state government down in Trenton, and that Satanic government farther down, in Washington, but the values they believe in are Godless: biology and chemistry and physics. On the facts and formulas of these their false voices firmly rest, ringing out into the classroom. They say that all comes out of merciless blind atoms, which cause the cold weight of iron, the transparency of glass, the stillness of clay, the agitation of flesh. Electrons pour through copper threads and computer gates and the air itself when stirred to lightning by the interaction of water...
...security cameras help to retroactively identify a crime’s perpetrator. He recalls a string of projector thefts at the Kennedy School of Government in March 2003 when the thief, a repeat offender, was caught on camera coming out of a classroom with a liquid crystal display projector. The next day, HUPD obtained a warrant for the perpetrator’s arrest...
...Mansfield concluded. Felton, however, said that he was “not at all opposed to in-class evaluation.” “The fundamental problem is how are you going to decide whether or not a faculty member is doing a good job in the classroom, and asking students is one way,” he said. “It’s just how the data is used,” he added, advocating the use of peer reviews by professors as well as student data “to judge how effectively a class...
...public school boys and their lovably old-fashioned teacher, struck me as a sentimental, highfalutin' version of Welcome Back, Kotter. Only in this case, the teacher (the dismayingly rotund Richard Griffiths) also likes to diddle the boys' privates when he gives them rides home on his motorcycle, and the classroom cut-ups reenact entire scenes from Dark Victory and know all the words to Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Oh, please. The play's central conflict, and claim to seriousness, lies in the rivalry between the old teacher and a hotshot newcomer who cracks the whip to prepare the boys...