Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midst of the history section, I saw it: a perforated Coop book card, enclosed in its yellow plastic square, velcroed to the bookshelf: "Hist. 1155. Twersky. no order rec'vd" was its curt message, as it lorded over an empty shelf, never to be filled with books for a class that would not be offered...
...exceptional scholars more than exceptional instructors. More importantly, regardless of how enthusiastic she is, the professor of a large Core course cannot interact with her students on a personal and meaningful level. This job is then left to the teaching fellows, and for these enormous classes, many section leaders are needed; this begets another problem...
...Core course section leaders are often unqualified. Core courses must provide students with section leaders, but for very large courses, there will undoubtedly be a shortage of graduate students with a specialization in the relevant area. For example, French graduate students whose areas of specialization are not film become teaching fellows for Foreign Culture 21: "Cinema et culture francaise, de 1896 a nos jours." In such situations, section leaders become nothing but glorified discussion facilitators. This is a disservice to bright graduate and undergraduate students alike...
...bills in anticipation of the divorce. The settlement downsized the family's life-style; Bernard Lewinsky, who paid $6,000 a month in spousal and child support after the settlement, now lives in a one-story stucco house. It is worth $700,000, but it lies in a modest section of Brentwood, a few blocks from Nicole Brown Simpson's house...
...looking at 180 days in jail and a $500 fine. And until 1995, sodomy, including oral sex, was illegal in D.C. But whatever kind of sex President Clinton did or did not have with Monica Lewinsky, his legal problems don't lie with the morals section of D.C. local law. It's a cluster of federal statutes, lumped under the rubric "obstruction of justice," that could spell trouble. As a former law professor, Clinton would have no problem parsing their legalistic references to "knowingly" doing this and "corruptly" doing that. But in truth they all boil down to a principle...