Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ag5 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 Article-I.D.: pucc-i.708 Posted: Tue Oct 23 13:11:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 02:48:23 EDT References: <199@scorplx.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Lines: 24 *[] ..>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 experienceThis 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! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry C. Mensch | User Confuser | Purdue University User Services {ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax|purdue|sequent|inuxc|uiucdcs}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 {allegra|cbosgd|hao|harpo|seismo|intelca|masscomp}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hit me with your laser beam!"