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BORN. To MELISSA ETHERIDGE, 35, Grammy Award-winning singer, and her partner JULIE CYPHER, 32: a girl, Bailey Jean; in the Los Angeles area. Cypher is the former wife of actor-singer Lou Diamond Phillips. The couple has not disclosed the method of fertilization...
They are instead chosen: 1) because their adviser is teaching the class; 2) because their dissertation topic could be a marginal footnote in the course being taught; 3) because they asked first. This slipshod method of choosing teaching fellows benefits only their pocketbooks and certainly not the students they teach...
Before I came here, I knew that I would be taught by graduate students. However, I believed the standard argument: that this method of learning was acceptable because these were the future professors of America and they were, after all, at Harvard. These two statements may be true; however, in combination they do not guarantee good teaching and all too often produce TFs who are simply teaching sections for the $3,000, who nod and say "uh-huh" at anything that bears resemblance to a remark in basic English...
...cope. The focus groups, which will meet between Feb. 18 and 20, are an excellent move on the part of the University. We support the initiative of the University and UHS to address the issue of stress and the problem of support networks on campus, as well as the method employed, namely consulting students directly. However, before we offer unequivocal praise to the administration, it is important to acknowledge that this move is long overdue on a campus that is rife with stresses and scarce with services...
Focus groups were chosen as the best method to learn about student health concerns because they reveal a greater depth of knowledge than do written surveys, Rosenthal said...