Word: sectionmen
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...late last spring to get full funding from an already tight Faculty of Arts Sciences budget, Thomas J. Cottle '59 the course's sponsor, said. The course was approved as a full-credit University course only after impassioned debate about its controversial format, which includes using undergraduates as sectionmen, for example...
...Ford said, decided in this case to interpret "instructional responsibility" to mean "grading." And only graduate students--not the undergraduate sectionmen--will be responsible for grading. This was also the Department's decision...
...Sectionmen, when they must grade papers, look for points that justify giving an "A" or "C", (nearly any College paper that is typed, literate, and the proper length will get a "B--"), instead of examining it critically for ideas and arguments...
Since they cannot get grades abolished, staff members want a system "substantially separated from the student's performance in the course." This bit of euphemistic phrasing means a nonsense or random grading system: pulling grades out of a hat or giving everyone in a section the same grade. Individual sectionmen have been surreptitiously deviating from the merit grading system for years. But now the 148 sectionmen have brought the whole issue into the open...
...lead and grade sections. Since 14 of the 24 section leaders in 148 are not Harvard Arts and Sciences graduate students, they are ineligible for appointments as teaching fellows. They have, nevertheless, put more into the theory and practice of being a section leader than have any group of sectionmen before them. It would be a great service to the College if their "Teacher's Manual" were published and given wide circulation...