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...allow and only after a targeted evaluative process that will begin next month." The process will be led by a new guided Work Team "with expertise in design, urban planning, business strategy, real estate development, and public policy." The committee will include Peter Tufano, the senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs at Harvard Business School, Bill Purcell, the head of the Institute of Politics and the former mayor of Nashville, TN, and Alex Krieger, chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate school of Design...
Beyond the turnover in professors, we are also concerned with the number of professors that Harvard will be left with after the package takes effect. Dean Smith has clearly stated that he intends to shrink faculty; we are worried that such a change will adversely affect class offerings and, importantly, class sizes. Small class settings and the breadth of our course offerings are vital to the undergraduate experience, and we hope they are not sacrificed for financial reasons. Moreover, small departments, especially those that are composed of committees, might be more negatively affected than others which have more professors...
Though they may gripe, undergraduates’ academic experience is not grossly impacted by the lack of hot breakfast. It will be, however, severely diminished by an increase in class size and a decrease in course offerings; Dean Smith and the rest of FAS must make sure Harvard remains a prestigious academic institution where students receive a first-class education, no matter the cost...
Other speakers in Kirkland’s series have included Reverend Al Sharpton, Mass. Senator John Kerry, and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean...
...Makere University, one voice seemed to try to stem the anti-gay tide. Said Sylvia Tamale, dean of law: "Today it is homosexuals under attack. Tomorrow it will be another minority." In the meantime, the country's gay community cowers. "In Uganda people take us to be sinners," says Grace, the leader of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth group, who preferred not to give her surname. "They consider us as a destroyed person. Most of [our members] say, 'I don't know what I am doing in this world. Everybody hates me.' We have to keep on consoling...