Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...About six months ago, a drunken Harvard student walked right into the back of the store," she says. "Without saying a word, he opened the cooler, and just urinated all over the gatorade section." As Josie says, "I didn't know what to do--I just stood there watching, speechless." And the funny thing is, she claims that it wouldn't have been so bad after all if it had been the first time something like that had happened. In fact, "that was the third time someone had pissed all over our store." Note to self: buy Gatorade...
Despite what you are hearing from the puerile American media, substantive developments with serious repercussions are occurring in the world around us. Look past zippergate, Henry Hyde, and the daily spin-cycle that produces our national headlines to the real news--in the international section. A cursory glance will yield an exciting array of stories: the beginnings of a fundamentalist revolution in an Islamic nuclear power, a hot war between Iran and Afghanistan and tales of a genocide in the Western world...
However titillating the 13-year-old in all of us might find Bill's latest peccadillo, push past the packaged bash-and-trash spin-cycle, turn off those dammed network excuse-for-national-news shows and pick up a reputable newspaper. Inside, turn to the international section, and read about threats to freedom, war and peace, and a mostly completed Balkan genocide. It's tyranny, oppression and grievous threats to our national security that matter, not Monica...
Professor David Layzer often used undergraduates as co-section leaders in his Core courses, Science A-18, "Space, Time, and Motion," and Science A-22, "Chance, Necessity and Order," which were taught entirely in section (both courses are no longer offered). Layzer wrote me in an e-mail that he finds this practice to be beneficial to all of the students involved, particularly to the undergraduate section leader who is able to gain extraordinary experience...
...depth of understanding in our field, nor the disinterestedness, nor the authority to formally judge or instruct one another. One example of the problems with this practice comes from a senior who took Gould's course last spring. Wishing to remain anonymous, he told me this about his section leader: "When she handed me back my paper, she said, `I don't know if this is an A or a C, so I gave...