Word: deane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visiting committee inspecting the Afro-American Studies Department was rumored to be contemplating a bigger change--downgrading the department to committee status. That rumor, and another that Dean Rosovsky favored the change, sparked protest from student groups and Afro-Am professors...
...familiar contempt for the views of students and junior faculty. When Bok and his Corporation seek to ignore the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility, when they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rosovsky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum, the silence is an echo. Granted, Bok is a smoother man than Pusey--as the Corporation and Overseers realized when they named him, he is the sort to rely on calm words, rather than...
Judith Walzer, assistant dean of the College and a committee member, adds that a concentration in women's studies faces the practical obstacles of lukewarm Faculty support and few course offerings. Forming a concentration now is "putting the cart before the horse," she says...
...student members of the informal K-School gifts committee and the Engelhard family produced a compromise acceptable to students, the Engelhard Foundation and family, and hence to administration officials. Though no party was ecstatic about the outcome of the compromise, in the words of Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the Kennedy School, the agreement brought "institutional relief...
...point seemed valid to those who could see a similarity between Engelhard and Hitler's characters. Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, did not buy the argument, however. Part of his job is to take into account the interests of alumni and donors to the K-School--in this case Engelhard's daughter, Sophie (MPA, '77)--and those of K-School students. He says protesters have shrouded the issue in rhetoric. "It was a triumph of symbolism over substance. It had no impact on anybody who lives in South Africa or who might have been...