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From: hh1@mruxe.UUCP (H Hottmann)
Newsgroups: net.college,talk.rumors
Subject: Re: Accuracy in Academia
Message-ID: <148@mruxe.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 16:38:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 15 16:38:43 1986
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>In article <652@midas.UUCP>, jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>I took a survey course in European History.  The first quarter
>covered the end of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance.
>[he goes on to state that his TA's assignments were
>leftward-leaning in nature and focussed more on current events
>in Central America than on European history during the Middle
>Ages...]

OK, so you didn't get out of the class what you bargained for, at
least not from your TA.  What about the prof?  Was his treatment
of the subject any more focussed on the subject at hand (European
History)?  Whatever your answers to these questions, did you ever
consider going to the prof to complain about your TA (I'll admit
this would not work as well if the prof were teaching the course
much as you described your TA doing.)?
And what good would Accuracy in Academia do in this instance?
I'm sure the History department has its own internal procedures
for dealing with TA problems (of course you may feel the entire
department is infected with leftward-leaning syndrome :-).  
In all of your story, aside from pointing out that you weren't
taught what you had expected to be taught, you didn't say you
were taught opinions in the guise of knowledge.  Rooting out such
teaching is (or so I gather from the many postings on the
subject) the job AIA has taken upon itself to do.  So WHAT
GIVES!?!?

hagen (as in -Dazs)
mruxe!hh1