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According to Frank Westheimer, Loob Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the task force, no alternatives have yet been approved, and all are being judged by criteria which might label each either academically unacceptable, too expensive, or unacceptable to faculty, Administration, or donors. The academic guidelines being used are, simply put, a concern for both concentrators and nonconcentrating undergraduates as well as for relationships with graduate students as sectionmen. Westheimer hopes to have a preliminary report to the Dean by July 1, which should give a good indication of the leanings of the committee...
...rules of the club are bankrupt. They support just this sort of poor decision. They include a continuing refusal to act on student evaluations of faculty performance, a lack of commitment to teaching ability and professional currency as the primary criteria for hiring faculty, and a defensive preoccupation with style and decorum...
Dumont's neglect of realpolitik as a factor in decision-making leads the reader to believe that blind whim and guerrilla zeal govern Casaros administration. Dumont should have realized that many apparently irrational economic decisions can be understood by other, especially political, criteria: most notably the naive goal-setting which produced last year's sugar harvest fiasco...
...assistance to some student candidate for office? When is a student union a company union? Will there be dues checkoff, a closed shop? Can unenrolled youths join the union and vote in the election of officers if they are willing to pay their dues or if they meet certain criteria for being "students...
...normally accepted criteria of this society, Harvard people have made it. For that reason many would consider the issue of educational reform here as either merely "academic," or in a way irrelevant to the problems facing our society. It is neither. Do Harvard grads really have it made? And if so, what is it that they have? Economic success? A bolstered ago? That there is widespread malaise at this university is apparent to anyone with any contact with the students. This malaise is unnecessary. Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself...