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...even The Crimson sometimes slips into Beavisism. A recent staff editorial on teaching fellows opened with an imitation of a math teacher with an East Asian accent (Carcurus....hunh hunh.....that's cool). A piece about the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice compared the organization's officers to characters from "Beverly Hills 90210" and spent a quarter of its length parodying typographical errors in the group's newsletter (hunh hunh.... 90210 is cool...
Grants that students proposed last night ran the gamut, from covering printing cost for the Harvard Math Bulletin to funding a plane ticket for a Harvard World Model United Nations participant...
Apparently aware of the potentially volatile chemistry between TF and student the administration actively seeks to prevent classroom romances from occurring. "Delta," a Course Assistant for a Math class, describes "several seminars that Harvard mandates you go to [when you are a TF], which concern almost entirely the relations between the students and the TF". In them, 'we are given specific scenarios with the corresponding specific university policies." For instance, "a TF should never call up a student unless they have called and asked to be called back, and then the full conversation can only be about issues related...
...such a crush on him. Maybe it was the power thing." Or maybe it was a psychological trick she played on herself in order to do better in the class. After all, she notes, "after doing all that work, I got the best grade I have gotten in math at Harvard...
...students use their TF's accent as anexcuse not to do their best work," said Donna R.D'Fini, coordinator of the department's graduateprograms. "Some students concentrate on theaccent, not on the math...