Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lower on these tests. "If you give me the income tax returns of all the students being tested," says Kitty Kelly Epstein, who teaches education at California's Holy Names College, "I could predict how they would score and save millions of dollars." Well-off New York City parents hire tutors to give their kids a leg up, while poorer students depend on the goodwill of teachers generous enough to tutor them after school...
...have nice recruiting jobs lined up for next year. I, on the other hand, will not. Over the course of a week, I pretended to sell everything from cars to computers to denture cleansers. The one thing I couldn't sell my interviewers, however, was myself. Nobody wanted to hire me. I didn't land a job through the recruiting process--but, though you might not expect it, I did manage to win some peace of mind...
...wrong--I don't want to be a consultant. After all, if I can't even solve my own problems, how could I possibly be qualified to solve someone else's? No, I wanted to hire a consultant. My plan would be a bit expensive, perhaps, but the costs would quickly be recouped by the benefits of maximized efficiency. So I hired a few consulting companies to deal with my personal life...
Finally, the report raises a crucial point about the need for better representation of concentration tutors in all the houses. Especially since randomization, now that students can no longer pick their houses with an eye towards strong advising in their area of interest, masters should be careful to hire a cross-section of concentration tutors to back up the departmental advising and listen to the requests of students in this vein...
...retaliation, the instructors of the real "Sex," Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Irven DeVore and Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser for Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology" hire a consulting firm to brainstorm ideas for next fall when competition will be "stiff." Suggestions after conducting videotaped focus groups include co-educational lab partners. The required movie will be replaced with "Pheromone Femmes," available only at four minute increments each costing 25 cents. The Core office intervenes for the first time to veto these plans. DeVore and Hauser appeal in the name of "academic freedom...