Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good TF can transform a class, involving students in discussion and making even the dullest material fascinating. A bad TF can mean extra work, a section that is a waste of time or sometimes even a bad grade...
Haley Steele '99 says she would want to switch out of a section if the TF assigned extra work...
...writing in response to Randy A. Karger's piece in the Opinion section of the Crimson (Feb. 3). My first objection to this piece is quite simple. There is no need to write such a chastising piece, nor to put the subtitle "Council Means to Push the Homosexual Lifestyle on Christendom." All the Undergraduate Council did was pass a resolution that said that it, as a body, supported the rights of homosexual couples to have "same-sex blessing ceremonies" in Memorial Church. This is certainly not binding on the administrative board of Memorial Church--that was quite acknowledged...
...Faculty members want to teach large classes with many section leaders to recruit and supervise," he says...
However, my warm experience within a small department prompted me to realize the drawbacks of concentrating in a large department such as economics. I am not trying to suggest that academia should be warm and fuzzy. (Our anthropology graduate student section leader used such terms as "community cyberspace discourse" and encouraged "face-to-face encounters", even offering to meet with us during the beginning of this semester in order to stay in touch.) I think most people would agree that students learn best when they are challenged. I only mean to point out the huge imbalance between two departments which...