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The T.A.'s responsibilities range from teaching sections and doing grading to giving actual lectures. "Some faculty leave the real teaching to the T.A.'s and come in only for lectures they can do off the top of their head," Meredith says.
Special thanks to Cowboys Mark Brazaitis and Julio Varela, lensmen Dave Eldan and Gavin Villareal, rich man Ken Richman, my gentle-grading teaching fellows, and the rest of the cubesters.
The council brought the results to the CUE's attention in a December letter to Pilbeam. The study discovered complaints about unequal grading standards in different sections of the same courses, and section leaders who seemed unable to discuss course material adequately.
Grading and teaching disparities between sections "make students wonder to what degree sections are supposed to be the same and to what degree they're supposed to be different." said Todd C. Flynn '88, who chairs the council's Academics Committee and also serves on the CUE.
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynz eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or...