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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 13:42:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Laura Miller <lmiller@weber.ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Talk of the Nation
Thanks Jim for alerting us to the Talk of the Nation program.  I found it
quite interesting, but was amazed that a program about the use of grad
students in teaching roles did not have any grad students among their
main panelists.  We're supposed to listen to some physics prof talk about
teaching assistants?  What a surprise that he'd never come across grad
students acting as lecturers, since I assume that it almost entirely
occurs in the humanities & social sciences.  I think the most eloquent
and honest statements came from two sociology grad students (1 from
Michigan, 1 from Madison) who we heard from briefly.  But of course
sociology grads would know how to explain exploitation.  :)

People on the list may be interested in checking out an article in this
week's Chronicle of Higher Education (May 16 issue).  There's a long
piece on Cary Nelson and the book he's just published which, among other
things, really goes after the university's exploitation of grad student
labor.

Laura Miller