"Everyone's on the same said here," he says. "We want our TFs to be as well prepared as they can be, regardless of any edict from the administration."

He acknowledges that the reforms inherent in the formulation of a new screening and training plan could cause the department to lose a few teachers.

But given the attention Physics already pays to the problem, Georgi says, he would 'be surprised if the new plan made a big difference."

That, is precisely the problem, undergraduates say: there won't be a big difference.

Where faculty members see welcome "flexibility" those charged with representing undergraduate interests see a lack of enforcement.

"There's too much flexibility in this program, there's no bottom line," says Christopher J. Garofalo '94, who chaired the Undergraduate Council's student affairs committee last semester.

The Universal TF evaluation guidelines suggested by Garofalo's committee last December include such requirements as "explains material clearly" and "provides helpful comments on papers."

Council members take credit for keeping the issue of TF training on the table long enough to result in any training requirements at all.

"Unqualified TFs have always been an issue for us," says Hassen A. Sayeed '96, chair of the student affairs committee of the Undergraduate Council. "U.C. members were crucial in getting this issue into a central forum at CUE meetings we pushed this until administrators realized its importance."

But the new plan is not going to keep the undergraduates quiet, says Undergraduate Council President Carey W. Gabay '94.

If the new plan remains in effect for long, Undergraduate Council members will soon be back in Buell's office pushing for more TF reforms, he says.

"I hope this is just a transitory step," he says. "I'm concerned that this plan is not universal enough--I would prefer more uniform rules."

"But it's step in the right direction and I'm really glad the administration is taking it," Gabay adds. "They just need to keep going."

The direction Garofalo and Gabay would like the administration to "keep going" in is the one faculty members hate the most: the students want centralized uniform standards like the Undergraduate Council guidelines or the original Buell plan.

"I would like to see Dean Buell take up a central screening mechanism," Garofalo says. "Professors do need autonomy over their classrooms, but within guidelines The administration does need to set a standard."