Word: advisors
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Well, we came. And to our surprise, all those official networks have seemed to disappear into the Harvard woodwork or have never appeared. For example, for freshmen there are no minority senior advisors on this campus. There are only 11 minority proctors out of 60 for the Third World freshmen that make up 23 percent of the class of 1986. I can say that for me and for the 10 percent of my class that is Asian-American, it has been frustrating at times knowing that not one proctor or senior advisor is Asian...
Both Arango and Russell saw a need for a flying club when they arrived in Cambridge last year, but the club has really taken off with the aid of their faculty advisor, Edmund N. Goodhue, instructor in business administration...
...Reagan's henchmen, many of whom are grossly unqualified and do not share the President's vencer of personal unassailability. James G. Watt is the leading example: Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Margaret Heckler are others And it's about time someone went to town on National Security Advisor William Clark, a foreign affairs novice who, according to Newsweek, "is commonly judged a 'disaster...
...career only serves to reinforce this impression, for our man clearly knew how to pick--and stick with--the right people. In the early 1960s, for example, Arbatov was a confident of the late Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev. And all the way buck in 1964, he became an advisor to Yuni V. Andropov, then one of several secretaries of the Communist party's Central Committee. Today Andropov is Secretary General of the Central Committee and Arbator director of the prestigious Institute for United States and Canadian Studies...
...time he was Margaret Mead's dissertation advisor in the early 1920s. Boas was the pre-eminent figure in anthropology, a man determined to keep cultural anthropology as a discipline completely separate from biology. Margaret Mead, then, went to Samoa, Freeman says, as Boas' disciple, a believer in the power of environment and thus bound to find evidence supporting that doctrine. Specifically, Boas sent her off to the South Seas to study, in Mead's words, "the relative strength of biological puberty and cultural pattern." There, she carried out most of her research on Samoan female adolescence by regularly seeing...