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...trapped May in his office while advocating for changes to the University’s labor policy.A diplomatic leader, May spoke with the students for over an hour before attempting to leave.“He performed nobly,” said former Harvard professor James Q. Wilson, the chair of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which dealt with the disciplinary action stemming from the situation. “He didn’t yield to excessive student demands, but he was perfectly willing to talk to them.”As both a professor and an administrator...
...symptom of these flaws.” The Economics Department’s leadership—which similarly felt as though quantitative social science had been left out in the cold—stood with Mankiw in solidarity. According to several Gen Ed committee members, department chair James H. Stock and director of undergraduate studies Jeffrey A. Miron visited a Gen Ed committee meeting to argue that Ec10 still belonged in the “United States in the World” exactly as it was. According to former Gen Ed committee member Chase-Levenson, Stock seemed...
James M. Wilsterman ’10, a Crimson editorial chair, is an economics concentrator in Lowell House...
Though Harvard may be the first University to officially have an endowed professorship in LGBT studies, AIDS activist Larry Kramer offered an endowed chair in gay studies to Yale in the late 1990s—an offer Yale rejected, instead later accepting money from Kramer’s brother to help fund a gay and lesbian studies program...
...acknowledged that substantial resources would need to be devoted to making J-Term programming a reality. “If formal programming was to be a success, a lot of resources had to be devoted to it,” says former Harvard professor Lisa L. Martin, a co-chair of a committee focused on J-Term during the time of curricular review. “But this never happened.”Though the Conley report suggested that an office and staff should be dedicated to J-Term planning, and administrators and members of the committee say they have...