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Adopting Butler's suggestion, one finds that real wages of all printing employees in the Boston area have in fact increased by an average of about 12 per cent per cent since 1968 while the real wages of Harvard printers have remained approximately constant during that period. Wages of area GAIU printers outside of Harvard increased about 7 per cent in the same period...
Rosovsky has devoted this year to learning his job and shaping the administrative apparatus of his office to his own needs, instead of making major policy decisions. He prefers the quiet contemplation of complex issues to the hurly-burly of constant meetings and appointments. Yet the job Rosovsky holds, as it has been defined by his predecessors, is primarily bureaucratic...
Rosovsky is said to be unhappy with the paperwork and the amount of detail his job requires--unlike Dunlop, dean until January 1973, who reveled in the intrigues of exercising power and kept most decisions very close to his vest. Rosovsky doesn't like the constant give-and-take with many different people that such an approach to the job requires. "One of the things that depresses me about this job is feeling like a dentist, with people coming in every half-hour," he said at the beginning of the year...
James St. Clair was born 54 years ago in Akron, Ohio. His father was a mechanical engineer whose work took the family from city to city with disruptive regularity (St. Clair attended four high schools). But the constant uprooting apparently did not bother...
...what does Matina Horner do? "There are constant staff meetings," she says. "There's the Faculty Council, the Council of Deans, departmental meetings. The Radcliffe departments don't see as much of me as they'd like. I have to meet my dean, Alberta Arthurs, at eight o'clock Friday mornings for breakfast because there's no other time we can get together. And there's always some search for a new appointment going...