Word: joking
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...long-standing grievance is that student evaluations of teaching ability are not adequately considered in tenure decisions. We are pleased that the number of internal tenures of good teachers seems to be rising; we wish, however, that students had something to do with that trend. A perennial joke is that winning the student-nominated Levenson Award for exemplary undergraduate teaching is a sure way not to get tenure. Students and good teachers deserve better than that...
...remember--I'm no Dave Letterman (feel free to insert a derogatory joke here), but here goes...
Many students, including Joshua A. Feltman '95, former president of Perspective, described the annual reports as "kind of a joke...
...football team used to get free tickets to the games, but it was a joke," says Harvard defensive end Fred J. Martucci '71. "When some of us went to the games, we never stayed for the whole game--the Patriots were terrible, no, they were worse than terrible...
...that he visited after the unsuccessful 1993 rebellion failed to dislodge him from the Kremlin. Back then, conditions in the city were improving after decades of shortages, but residents still remembered taking the four-hour "sausage train" to Moscow simply to purchase basic foodstuffs, and the old Soviet-era joke was retold regularly: "Do you have meat here?" a customer asks. "No," says the shopkeeper. "Here we don't have fish; it's at the other store that they don't have meat." Yeltsin was nevertheless the triumphant victor over revanchism, and in Yaroslavl that day he was hailed joyously...