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...Current affairs make the case pretty clearly. As the new Dean of the College, Evelynn M. Hammonds, finishes moving in this week, some members of her staff are being forced to contemplate moving...
...According to two sources close to the College administration, who spoke on the condition of anonymity last week, Dean of FAS Michael D. Smith has been hard at work on plans to shuffle much of the College administration out of University Hall and into loftier perches—aloof from the undergraduates they ostensibly serve—in the Holyoke Centre...
...move has been hotly contested by Smith’s subordinates in the College Dean’s Office. In closed-door meetings with the boys upstairs, both Hammonds and outgoing Interim Dean David R. Pilbeam have insisted on the decision’s lack of wisdom. Yet all signs still point to the imminent departure of some of the College’s vital organs from the centre of the Yard to across Massachusetts Avenue...
...instead be the home of the Faculty’s apparatchiks. Peer Advising Fellows will have to swipe their ID cards and traipse through the Holyoke Centre’s profane architectural morass before they can file the receipts for their study breaks, but the staff of the Divisional Dean of the Social Sciences may well soon have a priceless view of Harvard Yard...
...Harvard’s administrative structure does not guarantee that undergraduates are left out of the calculus when important or symbolic decisions are made, but it explicitly empowers administrators to do so. The fact that Dean Smith, who has otherwise distinguished himself from his predecessors through his uncharacteristic concern for undergraduates, would have to be restrained by his underlings from evicting Harvard College from University Hall speaks volumes about the biases within the system, which place just about everyone else’s interests higher on the pecking order than undergraduates?...