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...CA Love...
...There is not a lot of romance in the math department,” says Jim A. Fowler ’03, who has been a course assistant (CA) for Math 23, 25, 126 and 272. One possible explanation for this lack of love, Fowler speculates, is the gender disparity in the department means male-female friendships are rare, and students don’t want to ruin those that do exist by dating...
Fowler says that before he started CAing, the only guidance, academic or otherwise, that he received was when math department heads “explicitly told me not to sleep with my students.” Anthony Varilly ’03, a CA for Math 113, got the same spiel. “There is very little CA training in the math department. But it was made very clear to us that relationships with students are strictly forbidden,” he says. Last semester Varilly was assigned to CA his roommate. He asked Preceptor in Mathematics John...
Fowler does recall a CA supposedly kissing one of his students. More memorable to Fowler than the violation of a strictly enforced academic rule, however, was his amusement and amazement that the math CA was kissing anyone in the first place...
Earlier this year, Bergman defeated the Lady Miners’ senior at the All-American ITAs in Pacific Palisades, CA, in another high-quality match that took three sets to finish...