Word: tfs
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Take the government department’s annual Halloween party. The room is full of political scientists exercising their Harvard-groomed competitive streaks in an attempt to win the most creative costume contest. In the corner stand a couple of familiar looking TFs dressed as the gender gap, each one with stereotypical male or female complaints taped to every corner of their matching outfits. Professor Mansfield is chatting it up in the corner dressed, as he put it, in “a robe, Renaissance style hat and an evil-looking smile.” (He’s Machiavelli...
Many intro language classes, however, have trouble having individual class parties due to the fact that these classes are taught by TFs, who, unlike professors, are not reimbursed for party expenditures. Debra N. Prager, a Germanic Languages and Literatures graduate student whose love for parties has driven her to bring in lavish chocolate sweets for her Fairy Tales section and to dress in full Medieval garb from the ART for her Medieval Court section, has made huge efforts to provide an off-campus party for her German A class. She said one of her most vivid memories of her days...
However, Prager and many TFs contend that some of the biggest parties are happening in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department. Scardigli, who is a former Romance Languages and Literatures concentrator, said the best academic party she has attended was at Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Brad S. Epps’ apartment. The party celebrated the conclusion of Epps’ Spanish 135, a course on women writers in Barcelona...
...research, and of course, for you seniors out there, THE BIG ONE. Whether the assignment called for footnotes or diagrams, annotated bibs or a boatload of primary sources, the magic morphing paper would be my first line of defense against end of term Scrooges...er...I mean TFs...
...their credit, most professors and TFs already make these accommodations. But it only takes one callous department chair or one disenchanted 20-something to keep us here until the turkey gets cold...