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...meeting of the semester, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will face legislation from the Committee on Graduate Education (CGE) concerning mandatory evaluations for all Teaching Fellows (TFs) in the College. Currently, the Committee on Undergraduate (CUE) Guides lack information on any TFs in classes led by professors who opt out of the evaluative process...
...power on issues ranging from deficits to torture, McCain is uniquely vulnerable to anything that hints of hypocrisy--even on questions that ordinary politicians would get a pass on. To have a shot at winning a presidential election these days, for instance, it is nearly a requirement that candidates opt out of the federal finance system, forgoing its matching funds because it's too difficult to mount a credible campaign within the law's spending caps. But that move, however pragmatic, would look bad coming from an author of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform...
Currently, professors can choose whether or not to participate in the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) evaluation process. When professors opt out, their TFs go unevaluated...
...students high-quality exercise opportunities. Currently, students who seek to participate in classes more exotic or more athletically intensive than those offered in the MAC are forced to use often expensive outside venues. Students who are not inspired by current offerings and who cannot afford outside classes may opt out of exercise entirely. In contrast, a PE department could organize a diverse range of classes with well-trained instructors and high quality facilities—and make finding, enrolling in, and attending classes hassle-free...
...unconvincing, to put it bluntly, much more so in the face of overwhelming agreement amongst the country’s civil war academics and a handfull of its perceptive foreign correspondents. Even so, the majority of news organizations, as catalogued by Think Progress, continue to toe the line and opt for cutesy alliterative terms like “snowballing sectarian violence,” courtesy of Fox News, or “sectarian slaughter,” of the San Francisco Chronicle...