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From: frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning)
Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book
Date: 1996/11/30
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references: <3290C33B.1772@cse.eng.lmu.edu> <57cofr$mgf@felix.seas.gwu.edu>
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Date: 1996-11-30T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <57i65s$jkq@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu
(Michael Feldman) writes:

> In article <dewar.848961096@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I just filled out my teaching preference form for next year, and I put
>> CS1 and CS2 at the top of my preferences -- of course I don't always
>> get what I prefer :-)
>
> And here I thought senior professors got perks like this...:-)
> 
> ('Course maybe there are profs more senior than you getting in
> line to teach the intro courses...:-))

Whoa, whoa, hold on a minute, time out.

Do I understand this right? Senior professors standing in line to teach
intro courses? What planet did you guys say you were from? :-)

I thought Standard Operating Procedure was to offload intro courses on
grad student TA's. And I thought academia's Holy Grail is to be promoted
out of teaching altogether...

-- Frank Manning