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...North House Committee set off a wave of protest this week against the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU) charging that the CDU controls the Student Assembly and recommending that North House assembly delegates temporarily boycott the group...
...Philosophy, said last week he hadn't "looked at the legislation yet or discussed it with Faculty Council members." He explained he did not think the legislation applied to a small department like Philosophy where student-faculty contact occurs informally. Consequently, Ricketts said he does not plan to set up the required student-faculty committee nor press each Philosophy professor to teach a tutorial...
...gray heads in lectures." McKinsey perhaps has a point. But more pertinent is the irritating freedom with which she and others permit their personal opinion to take precedence over Faculty-wide directives. By such retorts these head tutors flout not only the goals of this latest set of tutorial reforms, but the aims of all legislation passed on the subject since the tutorial system began. The earliest report on tutorials in 1924 recognized that professors were best suited to lead individualized discussions. A 1920s reviewing board--known mysteriously as Committee G (because no one could remember its real title...
Graduate students themselves concur with Bowersock's argument that professors ideally are the appropriate tutorial leaders. John Gibbons, graduate student Government tutor, agrees that "professors are simply better scholars." However, professors and the University have long ago set priorities that prevent student exploitation of these Faculty skills. Robert N. Brandon, a graduate student who taught Philosophy tutorial three years ago, said the problem partially arose from "faculty members' disinterest in teaching in general, because this is a major research university." Brandon added gently, "It is not that they don't like teaching so much. They just like other things better...
...caller said he had planted two bombs, one at MIT's Sloane School of Management and a second at Aldrich Hall at the B-School, "because of Carter's visit to Egypt," the news release said. Both bombs were set to go off at 11 a.m., the caller said...