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...Alberta Arthurs has only herself to blame for the fact that she is leaving her post as dean of the now-extinct Radcliffe Office of Admissions, Financial Aid and Women's Education to assume the deanship of Harvard's new Office of Undergraduate Affairs. After all, Arthurs has been hard at work for the last two years preparing the scenario for her own exit. Voicing her views "very noisily" on the Strauch Committee, Arthurs pushed for an admissions policy that would make her own Byerly Hall bailiwick superfluous. Now, with equal access and merged admissions offices a reality...
Such doubts must not be very unusual for Alberta Arthurs, working as she does in an administrative hierarchy that is almost exclusively male. The optimism she often expresses about her own ability to change things at Harvard is based from the start on her ungrudging recognition that things here could certainly do with a little changing. "This institution suffers from a basic failure to believe top jobs can be filled by women," she says, as she prepares to take on her second top administrative post in three years here. "I think Harvard has a long way to go in terms...
More and more serious campers fanned out through Canada's well-named Wood Buffalo National Park, which sprawls over 17,300 square miles and is reputedly the world's biggest national park. Located on the 60th parallel between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, the park is laced with hundreds of lakes, forests, and meadows where whooping cranes summer and the last large herds of bison roam. There are only 16 developed campsites, though bivouacking is allowed if the visitor has a campfire permit...
University officials decided at a series of meetings last month to bypass Harvard's normal federally required affirmative action procedures in appointing Alberta Arthurs dean of undergraduate affairs...
...less rough-and-tumble beginnings in the oilfields. That was certainly true of big (6 ft. 2 in.), craggy, Canadian-born John Kenneth Jamieson, Exxon's chairman since 1969, who started out in the oil business in the 1930s as a laborer in a small refinery in Calgary, Alberta. Last week's announcement that Jamieson, now 64, will retire on Aug. 1 signals a subtle change in style at the colossus of the major oil companies. More than any of their predecessors, Exxon's incoming management team are men who won their spurs not so much...