Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:31:04 12/10/03
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On December 10, 2003 at 03:18:20, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 10, 2003 at 00:06:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 09, 2003 at 17:20:21, Amir Ban wrote: >> >>>On December 09, 2003 at 10:45:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On December 09, 2003 at 10:06:38, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 10:00:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I have required classes, and to be able to go to Graz, several things had >>>>>to be shifted around. My univ thinks a world championship is important >>>>>enough to do this. You're a former world champion and for you nothing can >>>>>be arranged? >>>> >>> >>>I was told that for Gian-Carlo, v.d.Herik intervened to persuade his university >>>to let him off for the WCCC. >>> >>>Would you like v.d.Herik to call your university ? >> >>My university is not the problem. It is _my_ work ethic that makes this >>a no-go. I happen to enjoy working with students. I don't feel like it >>is a reasonable thing to disappear for two weeks on a whim, after they >>have paid good money. > > >If they know that you are going to disappear for 2 weeks before they pay the >money then I do not see it as an unfair thing. > >Uri And exactly how would they know? And why would course CS535 have 32 class meetings one term, 28 the next? it just doesn't work like that. Particularly when there is a follow-on course that depends on the things done in this course for preparation.
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