Department Head Loses Post for Refusing to Discipline T.A.'s

A dean at the State University of New York at Buffalo has removed the chairwoman of the English department for refusing to discipline teaching assistants who were suspected of withholding undergraduates' grades as a protest against the size of their stipends.

On the day before before grade reports for the spring semester were due in mid-May, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences discovered that about 80 percent of the teaching assistants in the department had not yet turned in

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