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...There are always people who aren't going to make the effort to understand What someone's saying," said Andrew Robertson, a second year graduate student in the History of Science Department. "Frankly, there is an element of racism that is just barely covered up by the excuse of students' interests...
...president of AutoPacific, an automotive consulting firm. In other words, they perform the neat psychological function of persuading baby boomers that reaching middle age has not turned them into grownups. "They don't carry the same label of suburban domesticity as our vans do," says Chrysler vice president Bernard Robertson, general manager of the company's light truck and Jeep division. "We get letters all the time saying, 'I've got a Mercedes or BMW, but I always drive the Jeep...
...grass-roots campaign to slip prayer back into school is aimed at a chink in the Supreme Court's rulings: the court has never expressly stated whether voluntary student prayers are permissible. A mail campaign spearheaded by TV evangelist and onetime presidential candidate Pat Robertson has sent every high school principal and attorney general in the nation literature urging that such prayers be allowed as an expression of "free speech" and "equal access to the marketplace of ideas." (His organization does not advocate student prayers on school-wide intercoms, the practice that got Mississippi principal Bishop Knox suspended...
...Departments use discussion sections as a pedagogic tool for graduate students," Robertson says. "The point of doing this for a lot of graduate students is to teach them how to teach in the future...
Testing graduate students' teaching skills before they even enter a classroom may be to the detriment of the graduate students' education's, Robertson says...