Word: teachers
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James M. Jones, assistant professor of Psychology and Social Relations and teacher of Psych and Soc Rel 1860, "Sport, Play and Society": "I see Kentucky and UCLA in the finals, and I have a feeling that Kentucky will go all the way, though I prefer UCLA. Mainly because my respect for Wooden. But I'm very, very impressed with the enthusiasm and court pressure Kentucky combines. Do I wish we had big-time college basketball around here? Sure, it's unfortunate that we don't. It's healthy to get excited about the performance, the skill involved, the competition...
...children's art center needed a ceramics teacher, the camping assocation was looking for exra counselors, and for office help to cope with a flood of applications. The...Red Cross was looking for volunteers for their blood-donor room. A neighborhood settlement house needed a group woker...
...alongside the Grimke sisters is Charlotte Ray, the first black woman lawyer. And in contrast to the impact of the two abolitionist/feminists is the fact that Charlotte Ray, in the late 19th century, had to give up her legal practice for lack of clients, supporting herself afterwards as a teacher. All of these women's lives tells a story beyond their own--a story of the kind of treatment accorded different women at different stages of our history...
Among the school's unusual fiscal practices that have surfaced, part of a $1.4 million federal grant for a University of Massachusetts-sponsored teacher-training program in Brooklyn seems to have been spent on "academic retreats" in Montreal hotels. Two checks were made out to "consultants" who apparently did not exist. The checks had been cashed by Cleo Abraham, an assistant professor, who subsequently handed in his resignation...
...After the school board in the quiet desert town of Apple Valley, Calif., voted to fire high school Gym Teacher Lou Zivkovich last fall because he had appeared nude in the centerfold of Playgirl magazine, Zivkovich, 33, appealed the decision. Last week a state appeals panel admonished him for a "mistake in judgment," but ruled that he could not be fired. Zivkovich, who received $1,000 plus an expenses-paid weekend in Hawaii for his extracurricular modeling job, called the ruling a "national victory" for the rights of teachers...