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...Skip the shower on Sunday morning before you leave for that walk of shame; you’ll be saving water even if you’re not saving face. 2) Burn the midnight oil—literally—and do your calculus by candlelight. Accuse your TF of environmental insensitivity if he downgrades you for wax drips. 3) Unplug your “personal massager.” 4) Unplug your other “personal massager.” 5) Turn off the heat in all the rooms in your entryway and count how many days...
...that evening. Megan M. Roberts ’10, who was in a life sciences lab when the alarm went off, said “there was not much confusion” as students, faculty, staff evacuated the Science Center. “We just followed our TF [teaching fellow] and waited outside for 5 or 10 minutes, at which point our TF told us we could go, since it was a Friday afternoon,” she said. Since the server room is located in the basement of the Science Center, the cause of the fire was not immediately...
...system would be even better if it were opened up both to administrators and faculty members. “I think it’s great,” said Rehema Kutua ’07. “You never want to go against a professor or TF or anyone in control over your grade.” Kutua added that the site could even allow students to send compliments to professors without looking obsequious—a trend that has been seen in Princeton’s messages, according to Biederman. —Staff writer Alexander...
More than a week after the Undergraduate Council (UC) established an e-mail hotline for student feedback on teaching fellow (TF) performance, TFs, administrators, and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning have been reluctant to fully endorse the program. UC president Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Bok Center Director James Wilkinson have discussed the possibility of the Center providing training for the undergraduate board charged with synthesizing and acting on student feedback. The Center oversees TF training and reform. In a swift response to a Feb. 14 Crimson op-ed co-authored by Petersen stating...
Students now have an outlet, and possibly a form of recourse, for their concerns or frustrations over substandard Teaching Fellow (TF) instruction, thanks in large part to the efforts of the Undergraduate Council (UC). The fervency and efficiency with which the UC has pursued this goal, independent of the administration, marks a significant departure from the endless bureaucratic quagmires of years past. Still, the UC stepped on too many toes in hastily rolling out the new hotline, and there is much left to be done if the hotline is to become a useful tool for improving pedagogy at the College...