Overload: GSIs face unfairly heavy workloads
In University foreign language classes, students are no longer the only ones saying "no comprendo." Foreign language Graduate Student Instructors do not understand why their workloads exceed the allotted 16 hours per section, per week. On Wednesday, more than 20 GSIs graded homework assignments outside LSA Associate Dean John Cross' office in the LSA building. The protest effectively illustrated their point - overworked GSIs cannot teach at their maximum capacity.
Across state lines: Registry would help control gun trafficking
The federal government and the National Rifle Association have always been at odds when it came to the issue of federal versus state gun control. However, a new congressional study, using information from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, provides information that is sure to lend credit to the need for federal regulation. The study shows that only a handful of states with lax gun-control regulations are putting firearms in the rest of the nation's hands.
Where have you gone, Jean Luc Goddard?
Foreign films have long been a favorite play-thing for the cultural elite; since the 1930s, social critics, intellectuals and snobby-types have enjoyed few things more than pontificating on the latest Bergman, Goddard, Truffaut and the like. (I admit! This column is named for Jean Renoir's classic, "Grand Illusion.") But only recently have foreign films become the sole property of the intellectual class; while Fellini may have been a favorite topic of conversation at cocktail parties in the 1960s, he also had a following amongst the non-cocktail-party crowd.
04-15-97
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