May 16, 2003

Putting In the Hours

By JAMES M. LANG

You can tell a lot about faculty members by how they set up their office hours

Most casual observers of the North American professor assume his natural habitat to be the classroom, where he engages in those behaviors commonly associated with his species: speaking to audiences of young people in a loud voice, marking with writing utensils on green or white boards, receiving and distributing pieces of paper.

But the casual observer may overlook that this species usually spends an

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