Word: teachers
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...surface, Bowersock appears qualified to assume these duties. His students and colleagues say that during his five years as chairman of the Classics Department he has successfully combined the roles of teacher, scholar and administrator. And he has had broad experience with undergraduates as the former chairman of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--the student-faculty disciplinary body which he recently called an "anachronism"--and as a current member of the Committee on General Education and the Board of Freshman Advisors...
Edythe Kreshower, 47, a twice-divorced housewife in Queens, N. Y., was appalled when her daughter Merylee suddenly decided five years ago to join the Hare Krishna sect. Merylee had been finishing her second year at Queens College and hoped to become a teacher. But she took the Hindu name of Murti Vanya, became a nun in the sect's New York City temple, donned a saffron sari and joined her fellow devotees in chanting in the streets.* Convinced that Merylee, 24, had been brainwashed, her mother hired a private detective, Galen Kelly, to rescue...
...think it is possible that the quality of life could improve with the decrease in the number of people in this nation, but not without a major change in attitudes. When the economy fails and the population declines, the educational authorities do not improve the student-teacher ratio. Instead, they close down schools, fire teachers or subject them to impossible assignments, while the talents of new teachers go wasted...
...HOME OFFICE is apparently knocked out as a source of deductions for many teachers, salespeople, freelance writers, photographers and artists. No longer can, say, a teacher who grades tests and homework at home deduct part of his expenses for maintaining the dwelling. By and large, such deductions are now available only if the home office is a room that is used exclusively as an office-not just a desk or drafting table in the den-and is the taxpayer's "principal place of business." Loss to taxpayers: $207 million...
Luckily for impoverished Grambling, Governor Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long approved the school's efforts in 1928 to become state supported, and the first funds arrived two years later. But not until 1944 was the first B.A. degree awarded, marking Grambling's ascent from a teacher and trade school to a four-year college. Meanwhile Jones pioneered a field service that toured the backwoods, teaching such basics as hygiene and how to fix a harness. "We were asked off of some plantations," recalls Jones, "because they thought we were running their labor away. And [sharecroppers] did leave with...