Word: cohen
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...Adam Cohen, current president of the Harvard Law Review and a 1984 magna cum laude at Harvard, came because "there's so much here." Cohen comments, however, that the students tend to be a "very careerist group with a bloodthirsty desire to get ahead." Bok agrees, not happily. He reports that the stated goals on the applications of incoming freshmen were "money first, followed by power and then making a reputation." Once new students are safely aboard, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett notes that they acquire a certain "smugness" and "arrogance" -- as witness a cheer that goes...
Despite the angst, many people feel the contact with brilliant and diverse students is the most important aspect of an education in Cambridge. Says Cohen: "You know when you come that you have joined the company of some very, very select people." Grant Colfax, a senior biology major who never went to school but was educated at home in California by his parents, says, "The student body here has been every bit as influential as any of my classes, possibly more influential." His brother Drew, also educated at home, is a freshman this fall. Among Drew's arriving classmates will...
...Cohen says he has also seen the council'scomposition change. The members have become morediverse, and they have changed direction fromwanting a politically active council to one thatsolves more pragmatic, practical problems likeextending dining hall hours, he says...
Throughout his council career, Cohen maintainedthat the student government should attack issuescentral to undergraduates. Cohen, an appliedmathematics concentrator, says the now-famousSummer Storage Report, which stopped the Collegefrom discontinuing summer storage forundergraduates, is the precedent that the councilshould follow. "The secret to the council isattacking issues that have some effect onstudents," he says...
...split between activists andreport-writers, Cohen says he generally favorswriting a report, but it should be short, so thatcouncil members and other people will read them.But Cohen, who will be working for a Bostonmanagement consulting firm next year, warnsagainst the council's over-production ofpaperwork, adding that the council's xeroxing billtotals at least $4000 a year...