Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy began this winter when Director of the Summer School Peter Buck said he had decided to reduce the number of teaching fellows in all courses except laboratory and computer sciences, and foreign languages. "Outside of these, we would do a case-by-case review," Buck said yesterday of his earlier decision...
...When Summer School professors arrived to teach, several said that although a letter about the changes was sent by Buck, they didn't talk to him about the matter and were surprised to find that teaching assistants had not been assigned to their courses. The professors said they wrote letters and called the Summer School office until TFs were finally found...
...professors complain that Summer School administrators made an abrupt policy change by requiring them to ask for TFs in courses that have customarily had them...
Robert G. VanBuskirk, who is teaching a course in cell biology, said that because the Summer School program is designed to replicate courses taught during the school year, teaching fellows are especially necessary...
...ridiculous to say [VanBuskirk] doesn't need a teaching fellow," said one teaching assistant who asked to remain anonymous. "It's ridiculous. It isn't Summer School's place to decide that...