Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are a few professors who, bless them, try to make this situation easier for us, like Professor Thomas Scanlon, who told his Moral Reasoning 33 class not to study over break. Also, professors and TFs who assign final papers due before winter break can be a big help in reducing the vacation guilt factor. You may resent them in December, but you'll thank them in January...
Take Loker Commons, for example. Established as an undergraduate hangout, Loker is currently overrun with graduate students, loafing TFs are sucking our lifeblood of coffee and pizza, sitting in our plastic chairs, checking e-mail at our kiosks. We at Dartboard urge the undergraduate community: Gong those grads out the door...
What I took from the debate was the firm belief that the role of TFs in calling on students, male and female alike, should be the subject of a formal study whose results would be released to the community. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, sitting in the audience, referred to a study done by the Bok Center which revealed a gap between the number of men and women called on in section. How about actively publicizing those findings and doing another study to check on the current situation...
While we're at it, let's examine the strength of TFs in general, release the findings and see how the quality of teaching can be improved. Likewise, the discussion about and search for talented female professors should continue, and the sexist environment of the final clubs should be made better known to first-years...
Springsteen drove to Cambridge three times in the fall of 1997 to sit in on lecture and speak to students and TFs...