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Teachers grumble over pay everywhere,but in West Virginia Wesleyan College the anger is a cute.Salaries here have barely moved since 2000,and the average assistant professor’s pay has fallen below that at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College.On a campus with just 86full-time faculty,a sociology professor said,a few hundred thousand dollars more spent on teaching could make a real difference.
Wesleyan President William Haden says the college plans to raise faculty pay.But he says Wesleyan is nothing without students—’they vote with their feet’—and the college has no choice but to address their wants and needs.He says technology has been a big part of that,and some recent graduates agree that it’s valuable—though maybe not essential.Daniel Simmons,a 1999graduate and also a middle-school teacher,praised the technology program.’If I had gone to another school it wouldn’t have been available to me,’he said.’It was very convenient and it was top of the line.’
But as with the faculty,the quality of human instructors is a big concern among Wesleyan alumni.’A little bit more money should have been put into keeping people,’said Evan Keeling,a 2002graduate now pursuing a doctorate at the University of Virginia.He found the quality in the classroom uneven,and,notably,neither he nor the Daniel Simmons came to Wesleyan because of technology.The program was a bonus,not the primary draw.Skinner,the director of admission and financial planning,acknowledged that seems widely true.Prospective students pay more attention to more tangible signs of growth.’It did open some doors for us,but would I have liked to have had a new residence hall or recreational facility?I probably would have preferred that,’Skinner said.His daily struggle remains filling the freshman class,which may be down 50people or more this year,due to changes in government financial aid programs and the shuttering of the nursing program.The college still accepts about 80percent of its applicants,and no longer requires online applications.
Haden acknowledges that,with the benefit of hindsight,he might have handled details of how the program was financed differently.But he makes no apologies for taking bold steps which he says have indeed set Wesleyan apart.’We needed to make a statement about our commitment to technology and our belief that it would enhance the quality of education and the preparation of our students,’he said.’’And I’m still believing that.’

Faculties in Wesleyan have lower salaries mainly because the college()

A.invests too much in the technology program.
B.spends a great deal in achieving tangible growth.
C.fails to attract enough students to fill its classrooms.
D.cannot get enough government financial aid.

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Search engine Google was aiming to float on Wall Street this week,valued at up to $36billion.But the Internet company’s advisers are meeting this weekend to discuss possibly delaying the public listing after a sharp fall in share prices in New York on Friday.An insider said last night:’The float is teetering on the brink—it really is 50/50at this stage,although many of us are optimistic.’The initial public offering(IPO)of shares in Google,which could raise nearly $4bn,will amount to one of the biggest IPOs for years.But many US firms have shelved their IPOs amid volatile market conditions and investors appear unwilling to subscribe to new equity.A Wall Street analyst said that the Google IPO ’would be a seminal event for the American stock market’as its real significance was that it would test whether or not the recovery in equity prices since the end of the Iraq war had taken hold.’If this float works,a lot of other companies will be encouraged and come to the market later in the year,’the insider added.’But it will be bad news if the IPO is pulled or the shares fall sharply after the company is listed.If that happens,it could kill off the IPO market in America and elsewhere for at least 12months.’
Several fund managers have already expressed reservations about Coogle,in particular its high valuation and the complex way the shares are being sold.Moreover the Google flotation is taking place at a time when technology companies in the US have been shunned.On Thursday,the IPO hit a technical hitch over the failure of the company to meet its legal obligations concerning its employees’stock option plans.But the company did not think that the disclosure would mean a delay to the IPO,which is due on Tuesday,At the top of the suggested price range,Google would be valued not far short of its rival Internet firm Yahoo!—and this has raised eyebrows within the industry.The auction is being conducted over the Internet,and potential buyers will have to register by signing on to a Google website.But only investors who have brokerage accounts with one of the 28US banks and brokers underwriting the stock sale,will be able to apply.Google suffered a setback last month after it re ported an unexpected,slowdown in its huge growth rate.But sources close to Google’s founders,Larry Page and Sergey Brin,said that the tailing-off of growth was due to seasonal factors and would not affect the IPO.

According to paragraph 1, the insider’s attitude towards Google IPO can be said to be()

A.doubtful.
B.confused.
C.pessimistic.
D.confident.

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