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...ways of knowing,” as well as the indefinite nature of the United States in the World category. There was also concern that since over 900 students take Ec10 every year, the class might monopolize a Gen Ed category. But the Gen Ed committee, stewarded by Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, was able to reach a solution over the summer. The decision comes just in time for freshmen to take Ec10 this fall with the knowledge that it will count for either curriculum. In a departure from the Core, if Ec10 is taken for just...
Freshmen crowded into Emerson Hall yesterday for one of their first chances to hear new College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds...
...Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan M. Brandt were present to welcome the newcomers: former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, former History department chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, zoologist Farish A. Jenkins Jr., former Earth and Planetary Science department chair Michael B. McElroy, and former Classics department chair Richard J. Tarrant...
Sure, there are some true grotesqueries to be found in the book. There's a wittily observed chapter on the weirdness that is Turkmenistan, with statues and giant photographs of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov everywhere: "In some he looked like a fat and grinning Dean Martin wearing a Super Bowl ring." As someone who's been to most of the places Theroux describes, that's the kind of sentence I want to read; the kind that makes me think, "Exactly!" (and "I wish I'd written that...
...1990s, however, Obama had published Dreams from My Father and was contemplating a career in politics. Baird, by then the law school's dean, recalls Obama walking into his office one day to announce that he planned to run for the Illinois state senate. "It's a bad idea," Baird recalls telling Obama. "You have great talents. You should think about joining the faculty." He recalls Obama saying, "That's not who I am. I want to try politics." Their arrangement: Obama was to become a senior lecturer, a title that put him on the same tier with accomplished attorneys...