Archive for May, 1994

CLASS SIZE

What a strange walk this morning. The temperature this morning was a balmy 55! While huge parts of the country lay buried in feet of snow, there I was, walking in my spring grubbies of shorts and torn short sleeve shirt. There was just enough chill that wisps of air prickled my skin. A heavy [...]

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STUDENT BLOOPERS

Well, it happened again this morning, and my blood started bubbling with annoyance. “This has to be the stupidest thing I ever heard,” a colleague from the English Department said as he stopped and cornered me in the hall. “Listen to this: ‘Blacks couldn’t become cowboy heroes in the movies because they weren’t allow to [...]

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TEACHING STYLE

No walking today. It was raining like cats and dogs. Nevertheless, I was thinking about Julissa and Mark today. I know what they think about the style of the class. That got me to wondering once again about what my old professors at Adelphi, St. John’s and UNC, those who taught me 27 to 36 [...]

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