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...graduate students. Faculty budget cut-backs promise a reduction in teaching fellows in some departments, probably later this year. Add to that a complaint that teaching fellows are receiving too little money for too much work, and you've got the basis for student complaints voiced at a symposium early this week...
Daniel Graber, a fourth-year graduate student in Philosophy, and a member of a six-member panel at the symposium, said Wednesday that salaries for teaching fellows at Harvard have not kept up with the rise in the cost of living...
Graduate student complaints about inadequate funding for teaching fellows overshadowed a discussion of teaching methods at a symposium last night sponsored by the Teaching Resources Office...
...Syracuse University Religion Professor David L. Miller encountered the phenomenon two years ago when he set out to teach a course on ancient Greek religion: his students asked him what application the Greek gods might have to their lives today. Miller mulled over the question while attending a scholarly symposium, where he heard Radical Theologian William Hamilton say that today's students' spiritual search "looks like polytheism," that the young want "total access to all the gods of men." Now Miller, 38, is himself advocating a return to the gods, but not merely for the young...
Besides its symposium activities, Children's Advocates sponsors a group called "Parents Anonymous" to aid child abusers. It has also made recommendations for improved legislation and government support for child abuse programs...