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...least the G********* Department course had the sembalance of academic rigor. The Tea-and-Crumpet type of seminars don't. In these classes you receive lady fingers with your syllabus and scones with your exam questions. It's nice when an instructor believes that the members of a seminar should get to know one another outside of class, but during discussion it becomes difficult to take as serious criticisms offered by someone you've been talking out the past few weeks. When someone else accuses you of having racist attitudes or neanderthal political views, you feel like going over...
Instead the department voted to allow graduate students to use a course in Marxian economic history to meet part of their history requirement, included some more radical readings on its theory syllabus, and gave first priority to the hiring of a Marxian assistant professor next year--pretty weak medicine, the reformers said...
...committee report went on to recommend that two Faculty appointments be made to staff this course with people "whose primary teaching and research will adequately reflect the approaches represented in the [proposed course] syllabus...
...Gwynne B. Evans and Jean H. Slingerland, director and assistant director of Expository Writing, submitted a proposal to the Faculty Council to exempt over 500 students from the writing requirement, to eliminate the middle-group courses, and to standardize Expos 10 with one text, one exam, and one syllabus for the 1000 who score below 700 on the English Composition Achievement Test. The proposal has not yet been passed, because of considerable controversy between the teaching and the administrative staffs of the program. The issue--to standardize or not to standardize--is crucial. If realized, Slingerland's proposal would...
...kidnapers of Socialite Amanda Mayhew Dealey. Of course, defense attorneys pull out every stop and follow every stereotype to get a sympathetic jury. But one hint of how prosecutors manage to select vengeance-minded jurors came out recently in the liberal Texas Observer. It obtained a copy of a syllabus put out by the Dallas County district attorney's office. The chapter on "Jury Selection in a Criminal Case," written by Jon Sparling, the assistant D.A. who got the first 1,000-year sentence in the city in 1970, contained some astonishingly frank assessments of what a prosecutor should...