Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both fourth-year students, said a lack of role models on the faculty is another important reason students might be deterred from seeking faculty careers. "Role models rub off on you. A minority student sees the things a white role model is doing and says, "I want to teach,' but, as a minority, he may be discouraged from this," Clair says. He adds, however, that despite the obstacles a minority student faces in deciding to pursue an academic career, the problem does not lie only in getting students to do this. Clair does not agree with the concept that faculty...
...larynx was fractured and her thyroid gland damaged, common indications of strangulation. But before police could question Althusser, he was hustled off to a psychiatric hospital. During the past few years, he has suffered from increasingly serious bouts of depression, to the point that he was unable to teach this fall...
...home economics class, taught by Maggie Miller-Kleinhenz, now includes Lena Schmidt, 73, who regularly goes downstairs from the center to help teach embroidery to seventh-graders. "Embroidery requires a lot of individual attention, and Lena makes it easier for me," says Miller-Kleinhenz. "It's been fun to watch the little kids flock around her, and I can learn something about patience...
Some of those "folks" are flocking to the Tamiami Range and Gun Shop, where Steve Tomlin, 29, teaches a $25 course on how to protect yourself with a gun. Since instruction began last May, more than 500 customers, mostly women, have taken the three-hour course. "I am here to teach you how to kill," says Tomlin to his students. For the first two hours, Tomlin lectures on state firearms laws and how to shoot intruders. Among his tips: use a .38-caliber pistol ("It's the best for getting the job done"); assume all burglars are armed...
...enough to give the strongest Rio dock worker a hernia. That was '40s Hollywood, whose notion of Brazil was half picture postcard, half Daliesque daydream. Since then, a group of engaged intellectuals, collectively called cinema novo, have created a native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate - celebrate. Bye Bye Brazil does just that, setting a naturalistic tale to a bossa nova beat. It follows a tatty caravan of entertainers through...