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...gotta love that guy," a few students say about Mr. Test, the rain-or-shine Mem Hall test proctor who is known for joking and coughing over the speakers during exams. But one student complained last week that Mr. Test maltreated him when he tried to cancel his score on a Graduate Record Exam...
...members of the committee seeking a new director for the Fogg Art Museum yesterday confirmed reports that President Bok's controversial decision last week to cancel a proposed $16.5 million addition to the museum would make their search more difficult...
...CONTROVERSY over President Bok's decision to cancel a major addition to the Fogg Art Museum remains somewhat unclear behind a haze of contradictory accounts and official "no comments." Harvard art patrons and Fine Arts faculty charge that the sudden end to a three-year dream came as a result of mysteriously timid planning and an underlying insensitivity to the needs of the nation's most prestigious college art collection and fine arts training facility. They add that at least $11 million in contributions and pledges solicited for the expansion project will be withdrawn...
...last resort, officials compromised on a plan for the sale of some of the Fogg's artwork. But before they could implement the plan, Bok decided to cancel the entire project. That final decision, according to one Fogg supporter, was based on "a psychological funk" created by persistent and exaggerated worries over the national economy and past construction failures such as the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which exceeded original cost estimates of $50 million by about $180 million...
Burr confirmed the impression held by Ackerman and others of the Corporation's outlook by saying. "We have been burnt many times before and it's cost a lot of money. There have been many times that we felt foolish, when in retrospect we would have been better to cancel the whole thing...