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...most careful selection process is for QRA and Math Ar. "It's very complicated." says Deborah J. Hughes-Hallett, senior preceptor in Mathematics, who heads both courses...
Twice a year, Hughes-Hallett stages a campus wide publicity campaign encouraging interested juniors and seniors--sophomores are "extremely rare"--who have completed Math 21, AM 21, or an equivalent course to sign up for interviews...
DIED. Edward Hallett Carr, 90, eminent historian and Cambridge don whose 14-volume History of Soviet Russia, published between 1950 and 1978, chronicled the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the decade afterward; in Cambridge, England...
Nonetheless, Hughes-Hallett says her scheme works. "I wouldn't change it now for anything," she says, but adds that its genesis was mainly "historical accident"--she intended when she introduced Math Ar in 1970 to draw section leaders from as wide a pool as possible, because "teaching introductory math courses is hard, and it's not clear whether having an enormous math background helps all that much...
...Hughes-Hallett recalls having to convince "several people in University Hall" in 1970 to let her hire undergraduates, and being told it would be "a highly irregular thing to do." "I may have been the first," she says. But over a decade the practice has spread to science and computer courses--especially Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing," and Applied Math 110, "Introduction to Computer Programming...