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Friday, October 21, 2005

ROSE REMEMBERS

Sweet article in the Wesleyan University student newspaper about Phyllis Rose retiring and moving out of her house on campus. Here’s how it ends (UD can’t resist one little style change…]:

Rose said that Wesleyan has grown progressively more [UD believes “more” alone would be better than “progressively more,“ which sounds redundant to her] bureaucratic since the days when she began teaching.

"From this vantage, those days seem like the wild west," she said, adding that work days are longer, with greater emphasis on meetings and self-evaluation.

"When I came to Wesleyan, each professor got a fund for entertaining students," Rose said. "That seems so quaint. Now people would worry about liability."
Posted at: 10/21/2005 08:05:00 PM