Word: ta
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Facing the Enemy. Most typically, the TA handles sections of 15 to 30 students in introductory courses. He lectures, answers questions, conducts lab sessions, grades the students. He is supervised by a professor, who usually also delivers mass lectures in the course. The TA rarely gets much formal instruction in teaching. "You just walk in and face the enemy," says Cal TA Roberto Bernardo, 27. For the TA, who may be only a few years older than his students, teaching at a major university is heady stuff and valuable experience. "When we get to talking about our classes," says Michigan...
Jack Daniel's & Aristotle. Students find it easier to approach the TAs than the professors, and they exchange views more candidly in a TA section or, as at Harvard, in a small tutorial session. "Occasionally you run into a student who really does know more than you do," concedes Harvard Fellow Howard Felperin, 24. "Then you don't get a teacher-student relationship but a mutual inquiry." Sometimes, admits Janis Hull, 27, an attractive brunette and a three-year TA at Cal, "you have to guard against too much social involvement." She recalls the "young gentleman student...
...TA chooses to press his own first interest, which is the pursuit of a Ph.D., the system can degenerate into what Harvard Senior Herbert Denton calls "a kind of WPA for grad students." Harvard pays $1,080 for each section a fellow teaches, allows him to handle up to three, limits the job to four years. Cal pays $2,500 for a half-time teaching load the first year, with small raises later. Thus while an un married TA can survive on his stipend, a married grad must put his wife to work-and even then, says Cal Graduate Dean...
Fitzgerald, after a number of visiting professorships at other institutions, came to Harvard this year. Last fall he taught English Ta, an advanced course in composition, and Comp Lit 201, Studies in Narrative Poetry. This semester he is teaching English Tb and English 283, a course in versification...
Predictably, Israel's decision also touched off demonstrations all over the Arab world. In Baghdad, 10,000 Iraqis stormed Bonn's embassy and set it afire, and 4,000 Yemenis gave the embassy in Ta'iz the same treatment. In Lebanon, there were riots in seven towns, one injuring 23 students and police. Only tough police action protected German embassies in Syria, Egypt and the Sudan from angry mobs...