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f*y2012-05-26 07:05

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visited the school 2 days ago and sent the thank-you letters. The dean
replied today:
_______________________________
dear xxx:
It was certainly a pleasure to meet with you last week. I really enjoyed our
conversation. I believe your experience and expertise very nicely
compliments the strengths and interests of our xxxxx group. I look forward
to seeing you on our campus again in the near future.
_______________________________________________________
Is this a positive or neutral reply? thanks.

p*z2012-05-26 07:05

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明天美国公司要进行第三次电话面试，算是间很大的公司。前面已经有过2次60多分钟
的电话面试，这次的interviewer是公司该部门的vice president。
不知这第三次电面是主要问技术还是其它方面？大概会问些什么问题？是不是因为我在
亚洲，所以on-side的可能性不大，所以才有多几次电面？
各位请多指教，多谢！！！

i*i2012-05-26 07:05

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【以下文字转载自 OperaHouse 讨论区】
发信人: yschong (yschong), 信区: OperaHouse
标题: No news ... is good news?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri May 25 03:30:35 2012, 美东)
Opera News, 76 years old and one of the leading classical music magazines in
the country, said on Monday that it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan
Opera, a policy prompted by the Met’s dissatisfaction over negative
critiques.
The decision by the magazine, which is published by a Met fund-raising
affiliate, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and which freely reviews companies
around the world, troubles some opera experts. It is also the latest sign of
sensitivity from the Met under its general manager, Peter Gelb, in the face
of criticism over its productions. The move came after a review in April
took aim at the Met’s new production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle — a
hallmark of Mr. Gelb’s tenure that has led to a firestorm — and after a
top Opera News editor criticized the Met’s direction in a scathing essay in
the May issue.
Mr. Gelb said in an interview on Monday that the decision was made “in
collaboration with the guild” but that he never liked the idea that an
organization created to support the Met had a publication passing judgment
on its productions. Worse yet, he said, is a publication that “continuously
rips into” an institution that its parent is supposed to help.
Last month Mr. Gelb protested to WQXR over a blog posting that called his
leadership into question. It was immediately pulled. Last year the Met asked
a blogger to stop revealing programming choices for future seasons before
the official announcement. The blogger complied.
The newest subject of wrath is Opera News. Citing a circulation of 100,000,
the largest for a classical music magazine in the country, it provides
information on Met casts and broadcasts and glossy profiles of star singers.
Along with features on other opera houses, performers of past eras and
festivals, it also publishes critiques of performances around the world by
knowledgeable and respected reviewers. They have included professional
musicians, academics and local newspaper critics.
“As of the June 2012 issue, Opera News is not reviewing Metropolitan Opera
productions,” F. Paul Driscoll, the magazine’s editor in chief, said in a
terse telephone interview. He declined to elaborate but acknowledged that no
other opera company had been banished from its pages.
During Mr. Gelb’s tenure, the Met has tightened the reins on the guild.
The company’s assistant manager for operations, Stewart Pearce, was made
managing director of the guild, and the Met plays a stronger role in its
educational programs. Three guild board members also have ex officio
positions on the Met board, and donors solicited by the Met receive a
subscription to the magazine as a perquisite. Slightly fewer than half the
subscribers receive it that way.
Mr. Gelb may have reason to be more sensitive these days. He is under
enormous pressure to raise money for the Met’s voracious seasons, which
command budgets in excess of $300 million. Mr. Gelb has also been a tireless
promoter of theatrically innovative productions and the importance of
replacing old productions with new ones. Both leave him open to fire from
critics and traditionalists.
Opera News has reviewed Met productions continuously since at least the mid-
1970s, Mr. Driscoll said. While not frequent, negative notices have
periodically made their way in, to the discomfiture of previous Met
administrations. But no ban was imposed, at least in recent decades.
In the April issue, a review by Fred Cohn criticized the staging of Gö
tterdämmerung, the final work in the “Ring” cycle. The productions of
the four operas, which finished their run this month and were directed by
Robert Lepage, were the subject of much critical scorn, although they had
many fans too. Mr. Lepage’s huge piece of machinery used for all the operas
functioned as a lightning rod.
“The physical scale of Robert Lepage’s ‘Götterdämmerung’ may
have been immense, but its ambitions seemed puny,” Mr. Cohn wrote.
An essay in the May issue by Brian Kellow, the features editor, may have
spelled the end. It read, “The public is becoming more dispirited each
season by the pretentious and woefully misguided, misdirected productions
foisted on them.”
Mr. Gelb singled out the line in Monday’s interview. Such negative comments
from a publication that is part of a Met support organization “certainly
would not be in the best interests of the Met,” he said.
One prominent opera supporter saw the ban as something else: censorship.
“It is irrational and interferes with the business of presenting artistic
events,” said Nathalie Wagner, president of the Wagner Society of New York
and a longtime Opera News subscriber. “Censorship doesn’t work in other
countries, and it should not exist here. We think Opera News does an
excellent and a vital job in covering opera.”
David J. Levin, a professor at the University of Chicago and the editor of
the academic journal Opera Quarterly, also criticized the decision. “It’s
inconceivable to me that the Met wouldn’t welcome nuanced and challenging
criticism,” he said. If the Met is serious about presenting innovative
productions and repertory, he added, they should not be met with a “rubber
stamp.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/arts/music/opera-news-will-st

P*t2012-05-26 07:05

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Of course positive.

p*z2012-05-26 07:05

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自己顶一下

g*t2012-05-26 07:05

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套话

our

【在 f*****y 的大作中提到】

: visited the school 2 days ago and sent the thank-you letters. The dean
: replied today:
: _______________________________
: dear xxx:
: It was certainly a pleasure to meet with you last week. I really enjoyed our
: conversation. I believe your experience and expertise very nicely
: compliments the strengths and interests of our xxxxx group. I look forward
: to seeing you on our campus again in the near future.
: _______________________________________________________
: Is this a positive or neutral reply? thanks.

h*k2012-05-26 07:05

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vp这个级别的可能不会问太多的细节，他自己肯定都不记得。多准备一些behavior的和
宏观方面的问题吧

s*x2012-05-26 07:05

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positive, but the reply from chair is usually more meaning.

g*y2012-05-26 07:05

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嗯，我听说级别越高的面试，越不太容易被问到技术细节。behavior感觉挺重要，跟VP
聊的投机的话，一个offer就立马拿下了

f*y2012-05-26 07:05

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不知道CHAIR的POWER能有多大，系里一个教授透露说CHAIR很想要我，想力挺我，但是
不知道search committee里面其他几个教授的态度如何。

【在 s*********x 的大作中提到】

: positive, but the reply from chair is usually more meaning.

p*z2012-05-26 07:05

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谢谢楼上两位，那我好好加油准备，只有1天时间了。。。

s*y2012-05-26 07:05

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非常正面。看来你在面试表现的很好。

our

【在 f*****y 的大作中提到】

s*x2012-05-26 07:05

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有的系就是chair说得算，想要谁就要谁，有的系chair就是个苦力，跟小媳妇式的，谁
都不愿意当。差不多一半一半吧。

【在 f*****y 的大作中提到】

: 不知道CHAIR的POWER能有多大，系里一个教授透露说CHAIR很想要我，想力挺我，但是
: 不知道search committee里面其他几个教授的态度如何。

a*l2012-05-26 07:05

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in our dept., all TT faculty vote with equal weight. So chair has no
particular power.

【在 s*********x 的大作中提到】

: 有的系就是chair说得算，想要谁就要谁，有的系chair就是个苦力，跟小媳妇式的，谁
: 都不愿意当。差不多一半一半吧。

f*y2012-05-26 07:05

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i see.. I should not hold too much expectation

【在 a******l 的大作中提到】

: in our dept., all TT faculty vote with equal weight. So chair has no
: particular power.

i*t2012-05-26 07:05

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原则上是这样，但是很多时候，很多系里，juniors就是墙头草。系主任，或巨头稍有
点倾向性的意见，大家就跟进了

【在 a******l 的大作中提到】

: in our dept., all TT faculty vote with equal weight. So chair has no
: particular power.

f*72012-05-26 07:05

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that's not true. chair can still set the tone.

【在 a******l 的大作中提到】

: in our dept., all TT faculty vote with equal weight. So chair has no
: particular power.

f*72012-05-26 07:05

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very positive

our

【在 f*****y 的大作中提到】

f*y2012-05-26 07:05

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Do associate professors belong to juniors?

【在 i*****t 的大作中提到】

: 原则上是这样，但是很多时候，很多系里，juniors就是墙头草。系主任，或巨头稍有
: 点倾向性的意见，大家就跟进了

b*d2012-05-26 07:05

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算半个senior.

【在 f*****y 的大作中提到】

: Do associate professors belong to juniors?

s*y2012-05-26 07:05

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是的。我们开会的时候其实很多时候就是几个巨头在吵架，然后我们在下面不啃声，看
谁吵的声势压倒了对方我们就倒向他/她一边。
呵呵。不过巨头其实也并非一定就是senior, 我们系另外一个华人女发考题就是个麻辣
教师，很多人都敬畏她。另外，她刚刚提前拿到天牛了。

【在 i*****t 的大作中提到】

: 原则上是这样，但是很多时候，很多系里，juniors就是墙头草。系主任，或巨头稍有
: 点倾向性的意见，大家就跟进了

x*s2012-05-26 07:05

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看来还是人家有她麻辣的资本啊

【在 s******y 的大作中提到】

: 是的。我们开会的时候其实很多时候就是几个巨头在吵架，然后我们在下面不啃声，看
: 谁吵的声势压倒了对方我们就倒向他/她一边。
: 呵呵。不过巨头其实也并非一定就是senior, 我们系另外一个华人女发考题就是个麻辣
: 教师，很多人都敬畏她。另外，她刚刚提前拿到天牛了。

s*y2012-05-26 07:05

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是啊。我非常佩服她。
我在她的一个学生的committee 里，实验设计非常干净，各种对照应有尽有。
对照起来就显得我对学生/博后过于放松了。

【在 x***s 的大作中提到】

: 看来还是人家有她麻辣的资本啊