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Some attribute the calm to general apathy, others to better working conditions for teaching fellows (TFs) and research assistants, but the Harvard scene appears relatively unique as unrest spreads at both private and public institutions...
...other graduate student officers, like Ian A. Richmond, incoming president of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences' (GSAS) Graduate Student Council (GSC), say relatively good conditions for TFs make organizing unnecessary...
...Center also takes an active role in educating TFs before they ever step foot in a classroom. In 1995 the Faculty Council mandate that requires that TFs get some training went into effect. While the departments are responsible for this training they often turn to the Bok Center for help...
According to Wilkinson, seminars on teaching held before each semester draw hundreds of TFs. Though the departments set minimum standards, Wilkinson says that many TFs come to the Bok Center for additional resources...
Hordes of chemistry TFs stagger by on JFK Street, laughing and dancing into the night. They aren t grading problem sets or torturing helpless students with orbitals, precipitation and thermochemical reactions. They are having fun. They ve shed the monogrammed lab coats and the protective plastic goggles in order to go out and spend the department s money...on beer...