Word: advisee
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"[Faculty members] don't perceive it as within their best interests," says the senior. "If they want high level research, annoying professors to advise undergraduates is not the best way to do that."
Warren says that Harvard's program seems to be guided by a concern "to advise more or less directly those in a position to set government policy with regard to racial issues."
The CRC's proposal sparked intense debate both in the FAS, the Faculty Council, a small group of professors elected by their colleagues to advise the Faculty and among the wider College community.
Oppenheimer first approached Makavejev two years ago and asked to join the professor's advanced film class. Makavejev turned the inexperienced student down, but within months, Oppenheimer developed a project that Makavejev agreed to advise.
"There is a bastion of patriarchy on this campus; you can't expect things to move quickly," said Lisa D. Graustein '97, who served as a member of an undergraduate group formed by Lewis to advise him on issues pertinent to female students.