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Barbara Kingsolver's reputation achieved something like critical (and commercial) mass with "The Poisonwood Bible" (1998). Her three earlier novels, "The Bean Trees" (1988), "Animal Dreams" (1990) and "Pigs in Heaven" (1993), built a considerable readership, particularly among women, as offbeat, eco-feminist romances, and Kingsolver could have gone on repeating the elements that made those books popular: independent females vaguely adrift in the U.S. Southwest with strong views on such matters as honoring Native American rights and sheltering Latin American political refugees. But she extended her range dramatically in "Poisonwood," a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories...
Current FDO administrators interviewed, however, offered a different perspective. When interviewed last spring, the three then-current FDO administrators who spoke with The Crimson--Philip A. Bean, current assistant dean, Sarah B. Drummond, who has since left her post as assistant dean, and D.E. Lorraine Sterritt, who has left her job as associate dean--said they saw no basis for these allegations. They praised Nathans' FDO tenure--citing her work on first-year advising and her devotion...
...Philip A. Bean and Sarah B. Drummond, assistant deans when interviewed last spring, say Nathans' attitude toward students in trouble reflects "high expectations"--but not inappropriate ones...
...Drummond and Bean said in interviews last spring that they did not think Nathans behaved inappropriately by disagreeing with them...
...When interviewed last spring, the three then-current FDO administrators who spoke with The Crimson--Philip A. Bean, current assistant dean, Sarah B. Drummond, who has since left her post as assistant dean, and D.E. Lorraine Sterritt, who has left her job as associate dean--said they saw no basis for these allegations. They praised Nathans' FDO tenure--citing her work on first-year advising and her devotion...