Word: contact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignoring students," says Susan Napier, a graduate student in East Asian studies. But Smolin feels the administration is aware of the problem. He says his discussions with Keenan reveal that Keenan is "genuinely concerned with the problem." The decreased size of the school may lead to more Faculty-student contact, but no one can yet predict if the pressure of fewer students will allow Faculty members to feel more free to isolate themselves in their research...
...completed whole before the Faculty and the public. True to form, the Core arrived in the face of negative student opinion and without student input. Non-voting student members have served on committees reviewing the courses, but Rosovsky ordered them not to talk about the proposals, minimizing their contact with other undergraduates...
...same faith in the supremacy of Faculty members as tutorial leaders that characterized past tutorial legislation. The earliest report on tutorials, in 1924, declared that professors were best suited in the teaching staff to lead individualized discussions. The report assumed that "every professor will wish to have such personal contact with his students as the tutorial method implies." But the legislation made no provisions for those professors who harbored no such wishes. Since 1924 the ranks of this disaffected group have enlarged dramatically...
...managers commonly charge that middle-level White House staffers responsible for business relations do sloppy, second-rate work. Big Business's formal contact at the White House is Stephen Selig, 36, whose main credentials seem to be that he plays tennis with Presidential Adviser Jordan and that his father, a wealthy Atlanta real estate developer, was a longtime supporter of Carter's. Corporate leaders have had a hard time taking him seriously since his first meeting with them, when Selig turned up at an exclusive Washington club wearing a leisure suit...
...eight years of schooling, two or three years of internship, two or three years of specialization, by then he is married, starting a family and an expensive practice, and is at his peak outlay. Consider the long years of learning and not earning, the killing hours and loss of contact with family." A few doctors indeed hint that they are underpaid?or observe that they earn less than corporation chiefs and top sports stars, though their value to society is at least as great. Whatever one may think of that argument, the physicians' attitude obviously does nothing to hold down...