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...years, Hailei's case makes us ponder the changes in the faculty-student relationship in an academic environment and the potential danger associated with such changes. The traditional "trust-based" mentor-pupil relationship is being challenged by ongoing changes in our society. The power imbalance inherent in the teacher-student relationship is further aggravated by the advent of professionalization and the proliferation of commercialization. A professor is in control of such vast resources that his/her action can have a significant impact on a student's career and future prospects. Notwithstanding the tradition and the good-will of most professors...
Talbot opens her story with a profile of Jennifer Reeder, a part time teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago who goes by the name White Trash Girl. White Trash Girl celebrates the absence of culture that she believes is white culture and says of herself,'"I am busty, and I am loud and I love bad taste. I am bad taste.'" Though she represents an extreme, Talbot writes, "she is also perfectly representative, the mascot of a new, very hot academic field called whiteness studies...
...black employees; in response, Hispanic leaders demanded that the black associate superintendent who led the assault on Gonzalez step down too. In an episode in Washington early this year, Hispanic parents accused an African-American principal of taping the mouths of two Latino students who had allegedly cursed their teacher, and parading one of them through the school. The city's superintendent immediately pledged to hire more bilingual teachers and a full-time multicultural administrator. Hispanic-black tension also underlined last December's "ebonics" controversy in Oakland, Calif. The black-majority school board's announcement that African-American students spoke...
China admitted that in 1994, more than 2,600 people were doing time for "counterrevolutionary crimes," according to the U.S. State Department--many for nonviolent protests. A teacher who tossed eggs at a portrait of Mao, for instance, is serving a life term. Prison conditions are abysmal: a former inmate has said that new arrivals at a facility in Hunan, in southeast China, are forced to suck feces from a straw...
SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the PISCATAWAY BOARD OF EDUCATION and SHARON TAXMAN, a white business teacher who sued the board for reverse discrimination after she was laid off in favor of a black colleague with equal seniority; for $433,500; in Piscataway...