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"I certainly feel a duty to attend FacultyMeetings when important issues are at stake," saysStanley H. Hoffman, Buttenweiser Universityprofessor. Hoffman was giving a Faculty seminarduring last Tuesday's meeting. "When the mainissue at stake is changing the name of adepartment or a program, well, sometimes, Iconfess, I decide I have...
Opening the channels of communication within adepartment--guaranteeing that a student will havemore than one professor with whom to discuss workor career goals--is also a new priority, Andersonsays.
ESAC's goals also include the formation of adepartment, or more realistically, a committeewith curricular responsibilities, like history andliterature or social studies. However, Sommer saidit is unlikely that ethnic studies will become anindependent program.
"I think it's welcome news," said G. BrentMcGuire '95, a former council member of thePennisula, Harvard's conservative magazine. "Itwill help to provide some sort of balance in adepartment strewn with liberals and socialists."
"One person pointed out the analogy of adepartment whose mailboxes are in a hallway," hesaid. "Anyone could, if they made the effort, readthe mail."