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Instead, "we waited just inside that door," Boyer recalls. "The police called an unmarked car to the Lampoon...
Bradley H. Boyer '87, Director of Police and Security Paul E. Johnson, a detective, and a tunnel engineer escorted the diplomat to Adams House's Linden Street tunnel exit near the Harvard Lampoon...
...police were concerned that Adams House was too close and that SASC [Southern Africa Solidarity Committee] members might be watching tunnel exits," says Boyer. However the escort did not have much choice--the tunnel turns into a one-foot-high crawlspace to cross Massachusetts Avenue, above the T tunnel...
...page study, titled College: The Undergraduate Experience in America, draws on surveys of 5,000 college faculty, 4,500 undergraduates and 1,300 presidents and other administrators, as well as 1,200 high school students. The author, Carnegie President Ernest L. Boyer, points to the realities beneath such vocationalism: between now and 1990 there will be 12 million to 13 million jobs for some 15 million baccalaureate earners. The University of Illinois reports that only 19% of its humanities students have guaranteed jobs upon graduation, vs. 90% for business majors. Small wonder that according to U.S. Government statistics, bachelor...
...divorce between an undergraduate's major and general education requirements, which students often see as something "to get out of the way." Many schools permit such narrow focus on the major that what Boyer calls the 'great commonalities of learning" are lost...