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...there's a lot more going on here than violence. Vice City is set in a fictional version of Miami, circa 1986, and it evokes the place and the period with the skill of a Scorsese: it's a steaming Cuban sandwich of sultry Latin sirens, drug deals gone bad and seedy mobsters with big metal briefcases full of small unmarked bills. The city streets are awash with neon in candy pink and pistachio green, and each streetlight is ringed by a delicate nimbus suggesting warm, humid tropical air. The kicker is the painfully authentic all-1980s sound track (which...
...where, you ask, would an academic develop teaching skills? Labs and libraries are not a mecca of social skill and public speaking ability. “They should learn in school,” you say? Yes, they should. But most graduate programs require extra semesters and tuition to complete a college-level teaching certificate, an unlikely choice for a starving graduate student eager to obtain university status with a brilliant dissertation. And we all know how successful required TF positions are for graduate students with no teaching talent whatsoever...
...take voluntary trips to the Derek Bok Center, which offers a myriad of confidential services for professors and TFs, from seminars on educational theory to teaching observation and feedback. The center provides specialized training for course teaching staffs throughout the year, in addition to instruction and videos on lecturing skill. Despite its many visitors, the center is still the most under-used resource on campus (after free therapy at UHS), as it seems that Economics 1010a could have benefited from such attention this year, as could ten of my past classes. It’s free, it?...
...have a lot of speed,” junior forward Tyler Kolarik said. “A team like Cornell that doesn’t have a lot of speed or skill shut us down through obstruction and clutching and grabbing. So being on the power play all night is going to be a huge benefit...
...Dominic] has always had superior skill and talent, and over the last few years his size and strength have improved,” Mark Moore said. “I think that it would be foolish of anyone to put a limit on how good he might someday...