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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences course catalogue, and one error may have received more than just a cursory glance from an editor's eye. A midst numerous misspellings, addendeums, and subtractions, Paul C. Martin, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences, received an unexpected promotion--to the Deanship of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...More than any other recent dean, Rosovsky has focused his attention on undergraduate life, making curriculum a priority, encouraging improved teaching through the Danforth Center, and initiating the wholesale review of undergraduate academic regulations that continues today. Many Faculty members and officials credit him, too, with helping depoliticize the deanship, with being a scrupulously fair administrator and with having a gut-level commitment to Harvard that has led him to turn down the presidencies of four other University including Yale and the University of Chicago...
Despite his bureaucratic successes, Verba never wavers from his primary dedication to academics. He has cheerfully performed a difficult balancing act with administrative and scholarly responsibilities. "Basically my deanship is supposedly a half-time deanship. It works out to half-time an administrator, half-time a researcher and half-time a teacher--and the rest I devote to recreation...
...ethnic breakdown--or lack of breakdown--on the Law School faculty. The school boasts 58 white men, one Black man, and one white woman in its tenured positions. Until December of 1980, there were two Blacks tenured on the faculty, and when Prof. Derrick Bell resigned to take the deanship at Oregon's law school, minority students geared up immediately. They wanted to urge the Law School to act quickly to bring another minority who would at least maintain the old status quo, and they wanted to pressure the Law School to continue to offer the race and law course...
...supreme jet, the Concorde, should be permitted to land in New York's Kennedy Airport on an experimental basis. Judge McGowan, who helped decide that case, recalls. He made one of the finest arguments I've ever heard." And then, of course, there's Democracy and Distrust--and the deanship...