Word: ta
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...favor of big labor, but we find GESO's position untenable. Being a TA is not the same as having a job; the teaching post is one part of a larger financial aid package offered by the university to its students. GESO's members find their "salaries" insufficient for subsistence in New Haven. But these are not salaried jobs at all--they are fellowships granted to assist graduate study financially and to train future academicians as teachers...
Shoulda, coulda, didn'ta...
There's a beautiful scene between two intimate friends, Ma?ta (Elodie Bouchez) and Francois (Gael Morel), in Andra Tachina's Wild Reeds, set in the south of France in 1962. The two teens have kept company partly to defer any plunge into sexual commitment. Now Francois confesses he has had sex with someone else. Maite is shocked. But with another boy -- and she feels a kind of relief. As Smoke Gets in Your Eyes plays soulfully, she pulls Francois into a slow-dance clinch. Then, abruptly, the Beach Boys' Barbara Ann comes on. The two start jitterbugging, Maite breaks...
Weinbaum said TAs receive inadequate pay andbenefits. The standard yearly pay for a TA is$9,360, $2,000 less than Yale's official estimateof the cost of living in New Haven, according toWeinbaum, TAs may be fired at any time and mustpay for their own health care, she added...
...wants to say goodbye to the Core, Harvard's unique way of giving students requirements. It would be like suddenly calling TF's TA's and asking people about their majors. Well, if it is merely the insistence on original name-giving, then I urge the faculty to reconsider. But if all we'll really miss is the name, then in the words of Shakespeare (which I studied while spending an elective and not by filling a Core requirement), "What's in a name...