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posted on Jan. 5: New hotline eases instructors’ headaches

Classrooms without chalk or erasers. Lecture halls with broken seats or projectors. Rooms without light or heat. According to a memo distributed to all McMaster instructors in December by Harvey Weingarten, provost and vice-president academic and Karen Belaire, vice-president administration, these and similar problems have become an all-too-familiar frustration for teaching faculty and lecturers. "It appears that instructors are unsure who to contact to address these problems," Weingarten says. "In some cases where individuals are contacted, instructors get little action. This is unacceptable." The solution is the creation of a classroom hotline: ext. 23072. Beginning Jan. 3, instructors should call this hotline to report any problems with their classrooms, Weingarten says.