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What a pity, though. M.I.T. has lost an apparently great dean at a time when you don't read a lot about successful university administrators. And, it turns out, she is one who had a personal as well as professional understanding of the stresses of our résumé culture. It would be a useful lesson for M.I.T.'s students if the gatekeeper who gets to award the golden credential of a degree from the world's most prestigious technical institution is someone who lacks that kind of credential. It would say, "Don't let it go to your head...
...four months. She landed in a large, impersonal high school, and quickly became disengaged. "I started getting into drugs--weed, drinking, cocaine and heroin." After two years of mostly cutting class, she had accumulated a grand total of one credit. When she tried to transfer to another school, "the dean pretty much laughed in my face," she says. At 16, she stopped going to school. "I didn't see myself having any kind of future. I would get some job I hated and just survive...
...parties are trying to push back. The Republican and Democratic National Committees say they will cut by half the number of delegates to the national convention of any state that votes before Feb. 5. Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has gone further, threatening to bar all delegates of candidates who campaign in rule-breaking states. Few believe the threats. Once chosen, the candidates control the conventions, and none will want to offend key swing states like Florida and New Hampshire. So no one can say where the rush to be first will stop. Some reform ideas...
...remain firmly in favor of calendar change,†Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ‘71 wrote in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson earlier this week. “There are pros and cons to any reform, but I think the UC proposal and the Verba report make a good case...
...Dean of the Kennedy School of Government David T. Ellwood wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday that he would “enthusiastically embrace calendar reform...