Word: teaches
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STUDENTS have a right to section leaders whose teaching ability is commensurate with their effervescent resumes. Advertising big name professors without supplying competent section leaders borders on fraud. If the number of competent teaching fellows available within a discipline was indeed in question, which I doubt strongly, the ability to teach courses in that department would be undermined. Serious consideration should be given as to whether or not that course should be taught at all without a change in the teaching system...
Ultimately, it is the students who are paying the salaries of Harvard professors, while it is the stated goal of the College to educate said students. Therefore, the Faculty has an equal obligation and responsibility to teach their own sections or to hire a TF who can do just as well in their stead. Instructing section leaders to "[laugh] at one's self admitting ignorance (but not too often!" because it is one of the methods [the professor has] found effective," is hardly the way to go about continuing the Harvard tradition of of educating students...
More recently, the University has gone to great lengths to teach students about AIDS...
Ignorance about how AIDS is spread--for instance, the belief that it "selects" hosts among specific communities or ethnic groups--has in many cases hurt efforts to teach people precautions, health officials...
Incumbent Saundra Graham, who lost last month's Democratic primary by 49 votes to Alvin E. Thompson, claimed community support last week and said she needs only to teach voters the logistics of her write-in/sticker campaign...