Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grading will be left up to the individual sectionmen and their students. At yesterday's opening, Michael H. Schwartz, a teaching fellow in Social Relations and a course organizer, said that most section-men will refuse to do the grading themselves. He mentioned the possibility of utilizing a "nonsense" grading system. This would involve determining grades in some random manner, such as by lot, completely unrelated to the quality of course work...
...outgrowth of last year's "Radical Critiques of American Society" course. The new course will consider three of America's central social problems, imperialism, race and labor. Each section will select facets of the three problems to consider. A fourth topic will be an overview of theory...
...fundamental revisions in the course before they approved it. Most important was the shift in concept from a Cleaver-dominated course (Cleaver continued to claim "It's going to be my course") to a forum, in which Cleaver's lectures would be criticized and analyzed by other professors in section meetings...
...word "occupation." Censors canceled a nationwide TV and radio address by Dubcek one hour before broadcast time because he planned to say that the resumption of censorship was to be only a temporary measure. A few days later, he finally got to make his speech, but the section on censorship was deleted...
...main issue in the dispute was whether or not a community-run school committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn had the right to transfer teachers out of its district. In an unusual show of solidarity, the teachers' union, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan and the central board of education all insisted that it did not. Although not opposed in theory to community control of schools, the union insisted that teachers be protected from arbitrary dismissals. The conflict degenerated into an ugly battle that had racist overtones...