December 19, 2003

Please Remember to Tip Your Professors

By ERIC HOOVER

There is kissing up to your professor. Then there is saving his hide.

Students at the College of William & Mary are supporting a grass-roots effort to keep their favorite professors on the campus amid salary-freezing state budget cuts.

This month, four-fifths of students who voted in a special online referendum agreed to raise their student-activities fee by $5, to $80, to bolster the pay of midlevel, untenured professors who might otherwise leave for positions at other