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King said he has taught mainly graduate students because "the core of what I teach is how to do research." But he adds that he would also like to teach undergraduates, and plans to offer a junior government seminar in the near future...
...Tuesday, the day the theoretical-physics seminar met at FIAN ((the physics institute where Sakharov still worked)). I followed my customary routine, ordering a car from the academy's motor pool and leaving home at 1:30. At the Krasnokholmsky Bridge, a traffic-patrol car forced us to stop. From the front seat I saw two men get in the rear, flashing red IDs marked MVD ((for Interior Ministry)). They were actually...
...campus -- and society at large. The report prescribes a "Campus Compact" that universities must adopt if they are to restore peace to the ivory tower. The compact embraces principles of justice, openness and discipline that are meant to form the foundation of a "community of learning." But no seminar or speech or required reading will change overnight the attitudes embedded in a culture that children absorb while growing up. Nor will they easily break the cycle of hate. "If you can't have a university that lives together with some degree of civility and integrity amidst the diversity," asks Boyer...
...Hewett, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was an easy choice. One of America's foremost authorities on the Soviet economy, Hewett has written or edited five texts on the subject. These days, the peripatetic economist is in high demand as a speaker and seminar participant. Even Soviet policymakers seek his advice. He is especially close to Nikolai Petrakov, Gorbachev's top economic adviser, which gives Hewett an inside angle on the challenges facing the reformers in Moscow...
...Probably the average number of people in the seminars will go up and the percentage who get into their first choice [of seminar] will go down," Peterson says. Peterson added that if the government faculty did teach 44 junior seminars, they would be able to teach far fewer undergraduate courses...