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Departmental heads defend their colleagues who choose not to teach tutorials, pointing out a professor must give up a lecture course for each tutorial he takes on. "The real question is the trade-off," Walls says...
...trade-off argument is a convenient, but questionable excuse. Some professors, after all, do shoulder the burden of an extra tutorial without sacrificing their lecture courses. And instruction lecture is sometimes not quite the exhaustive commitment it's made out to be. Standing up a few hours each week to read ancient lecture notes does not consume vast amounts of time. Take David E. Kaiser, assistant professor of History for instance--he manages to carry one sophomore tutorial, direct two theses, and teach a lecture course...
Bowersock is teaching a junior tutorial and advising three thesis candidates. Professors are more "stretchable" than they care to admit, Bowersock contends. He recalled one exceptionally unyielding professor of ancient history who refused to teach a tutorial many years ago, when Bowersock was chairman of the Classics Department. After the professor announced that he "was too busy" to participate in tutorial, Bowersock coolly accepted the ultimatum, then replied, fine, he would lead the tutorial himself. Sufficiently humiliated, the professor "suddenly discovered he had the time...
Some University professors joined ranks with those who were concerned about the library's impact on traffic and pollution. Paul R. Lawrence, then a leading member of Neighborhood 10--the most vocal of four community groups that comprised COPE--and Donham Professor of Organization Behavior at the BusinessSchool, said opponents of the library were "almost all supporters of JFK." Lawrence says a large number of Cambridge residents worried about the library's impact, despite the small number of visible opponents...
Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and chairman of the Core Committee on Mathematics Requirement, said committee members also doubt they will grant more than one half-year course exemption for Philosophy concentrators...