Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Avowed Communist Hans Freistadt won't be teaching at the University of North Carolina after June 1. Chancellor Robert House told the university trustees yesterday that Freistadt had been ordered dismissed as a part-time Physics instructor at the end of this scholastic year. Freistadt's receipt of an atomic energy commission fellowship set off a recent Congressional inquiry...
Last month, Leonard was asked by the Rutgers public relations department to take part in a radio debate. He was to take the affirmative side of the topic." "Are Corporation Profits Too High?" This he did. The debate came off without great excitement. But soon afterwards Leonard said, the dean advised him on a friendly basis that taking the affirmative side in such a debate was not the age it get ahead at Rutgers...
...reason given was an old rule that instructors could not take part in political activity. Hale said that Parker had taken part in politics "both on and off the campus." Evidently Hale believed that Parker's action--with respect to the leaflets and the rally--had violated the conditions Hale set forth in March...
University policy is somewhat nebulous regarding the actual return of bluebooks to students; in general this is left to the discretion of the instructors. Many instructors are all too glad to part with corrected exams; others will at least allow students to examine their bluebooks. Some contribute stacks of old exams to waste-paper drives. Obviously a uniform policy is needed, not only permitting a student to see his paper, but to keep it if he chooses...
...Department, he finds only his grade on the cover and a lot of cryptic figures in the margins. Unless he can persuade the instructor to go over the examination with him, he still has no way of knowing what was good and what was poor in his paper. Part of self-education is to profit by one's own mistakes. Seniors in particular, preparing for General Examinations, can benefit enormously by reviewing old bluebooks. In other words, the same technique used by conscientious section men who pencil marginal comments in hour exams, should be extended to finals...