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At the Sanders Theatre
Mendelsohn also experiences the drawbacks of teaching in Sanders. "It's a real difficulty that you're on a stage so you're not level with even the people in the front. The lights make it so you can't see any faces," he says. To make the classroom more...
Contemplative and soft-spoken, Wei-Ming questions the idea of performing for his students, even when lecturing in the grandeur of Sanders Theatre. Education should come before show.
His methodology for instruction, however, has generated some perceived negative results. An incident last year exemplified what sets Wei-Ming's class apart from other packed Cores. The information booth at the Holyoke Center originally called for a photograph of students watching one of his Sanders Theatre lectures. The project...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, chair of the Committee on the Core Program, agrees the monster is innocuous. "There will always be some lecturers whose presentations are so exciting, and who talk about subjects of interest to such a wide range of students, that they fill Sanders," he...