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This equivocation, it turns out, covered up (or perhaps revealed) a much bigger one: TFs exist in almost every course offered to us. They grade our papers and tests, lead our sections and learn our names. Their names, however, are not listed in the FAS course catalogue. This omission, to my mind, compromises both the credit owed to them and their responsibility to the course. Besides that, it leaves undergraduates in the dark about the courses we must choose to take...
...list of courses which, while purporting to account of this institution's academic offerings, omits the larger part of their known participants and benefactors. As much as teaching is a crucial part of scholarship, TFs play a crucial part in the design of any course where they exist. Even if they do not choose the readings, they coach us in them. If they don't write the lecture, they answer for it. They are often the student's only responsive, personal contact with the course material. They are more than assistants...
...larger courses, sections and the TFs that go with them exist as a check on classroom overcrowding. While a student might not ever be able to pick that favorite TF, as sectioning is often randomized, listing the TFs for these courses would at least give students an idea of a course's personnel structure. Presently, the course listing for Social Analysis 10, the largest course at Harvard with dozens of TFs, is indistinguishable, content aside, from a course on Livy's history of Rome, where ten undergraduates meet with a full professor...
...insists it is only trying to protect the public. "We want to recover the URLs from people who have websites that claim an affiliation with us that does not exist," says IOC spokesman Franklin Servan-Schreiber. "Some are claiming to sell tickets they do not have, and others are promoting betting on the Olympics." But the IOC, an organization not renowned for its sensitivity to criticism, appears also to be trying to stifle coverage. Servan-Schreiber says that once the IOC had "recovered" disputed URLs, it would allow responsible organizations to license them. "This would give us more editorial control...
...Veronica Reed Ryback, director of the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center Rape Crisis Intervention Program, says she is unsure whether centralized help would be more effective than the individual groups, like Response, that already exist...