Word: professor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Hays, professor of geology, will discuss comparative planetology; this may be rocky going, but it's solid stuff...
Getting into freshman seminars is a game of wits and perseverance. The applications are a gamble--if you're lucky you get an interview. Write a clear, brief essay and don't show off. Once you get in the professor's office, you'll have plenty of time for song and dance. Find out who you're talking to, and ask questions that show you are interested...
This may not be enough, though. One professor, whose seminar is enormously popular, admits only one or two students without fathers famous enough to be known to him. Another dismisses the written applications in favor of geographical, income-level, racial, and educational balance. Many resort to a lottery past the initial application...
Gilbert Moore, lecturer on Afro-American Studies, and Tahi L. Mottl, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, refused to comment yesterday. Harrington Benjamin and Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professors of Afro-American Studies, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Eileen Southern, professor of Music and Afro-American Studies, will no longer chair the department of Afro-American Studies...