Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corporate world. In a discrimination case brought against the Business School by former Junior Professor Barbara Bund Jackson, questions have arisen about whether the administration purposely destroyed documents relevant to the trial. For a university in which the president issues a report posing his school as a top ethics instructor, this is hardly model behavior...
...crowd begins to chime in, and Oprah responds enthusiastically. To a woman whose example of B.S. is buttering up a college instructor by walking him to his car after class, Oprah asks cheekily, "How far did that walk go?" One guest, a rock-concert promoter, asserts that B.S. is a necessary part of his job. Victor Salupo, author of a book called The B.S. Syndrome, insists that it is the bane of society, damaging everything from personal relationships to politics. "Victor," Oprah blurts out near the end of the hour, "I only want to say one thing to you. Lighten...
This broader, more liberal-arts approach is enthusiastically endorsed by teachers. Says Yevgeny Yamburg, who is both the principal and a history instructor at Moscow's Middle School No. 109: "If an engineer has never heard Tchaikovsky's music, that is terrible." In addition, teachers will for the first time be given the option to choose among texts and to diversify curriculums, which have long been dictated by the central government. "Three or four years ago, any variations in instruction methods were unthinkable," admits Vladimir Shadrikov, vice chairman of the state education committee. "Now all this has become a reality...
Yamburg beamed with pride at his students' lively performance. "I feel my chief task is to form nonconformist minds," says the veteran instructor and Communist Party member. Quite a change from the party line of yesteryear...
...sweetest phrases in the language, now suggests a cause of death. Still, the world is sharply divided into the sick and the well, and AIDS can be something of a lark if you are a robust heterosexual college student at a safe-sex lecture where the instructor demonstrates condom use on a cucumber. Only 4% of adult cases are known to have been caused through heterosexual contact. But for homosexual and bisexual males, who account for 63% of the cases, AIDS is nature's own genocide...