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However, in the math department all that is required of undergraduate CAs, the most inexperienced of all section leaders, are two seminars—one about the challenges of undergraduates teaching undergraduates and an orientation session by the department...
...Between section, office hours, grading, and attending lecture it takes up as much time as a fifth class,” says Ariel B.E. Shwayder ’03, a CA for Math...
...idea what preceptor means. Harvey, contemplating the words Latin root, posits that it might refer to hitting people over the head with a pointed stick. Internal Expository angst aside, he explains that preceptor falls under a different category at Harvard than lecturer. Preceptors teach skill-based subjects such as math, music and language. They, according to Harvey, are in a slightly differently category than people who teach content-based curriculum, such as lecturers in History and Literature. The worlds authority on words, the Oxford English Dictionary, states in its infinite wisdom that a preceptor is one who instructs; a teacher...
...people on any given week. Classics concentrators are not the only ones waxing philosophical in the language of the philosophers. The table is open to all Latin-loving souls, whether they come to speak or just to soak up the hyper-intellectual aura. Adam S. Levine 05, a potential math concentrator and new table member, was surprised at the proficiency of the speakers. My first reaction was complete amazement at how well some of the people speak a language that has been dead for many centuries, he says. Sometimes the students accidentally place their order in Latin, much...
...presumption of innocence until proof of guilt. Suspicionless searches or drug testing of students are in no way compatible with that principle. Moreover, government officials—including public school principals—may not search citizens without reasonable justification, and membership in such groups as the math team or the marching band does not in itself justify an intrusive search...