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From: ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: T.A's in college
Message-ID: <708@pucc-i>
Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 13:11:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 13:11:21 1984
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..>Are there any other college students out there that have had
..>communication problems with a teaching assistant at their 
..>respective college?  The University of Lowell where I am currently
..>enrolled, is notorious for hiring graduate students to teach very
..>difficult courses such as Calculus, Physics or Data structures.

	Every university has these kinds of problems...  It comes because
some schools (a) permit foreign students to study without adequate language
skills, and (b) many graduate schools *require* their Ph.D. students to
teach as part of their academic experience 

	This last item is easy to explain:  departments get Teaching/
Research Assistants at slave-labor prices....  $9,000 or so for a year
of teaching?  I'd tell them where to stick it!

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