Word: dreben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor Burton S. Dreben '49. He takes a well-deserved year of leave, and no one notices he's gone. Worse, he's not even gone...
...Professor Dreben never goes anywhere. He likes it here," says a source in University Hall. "He doesn't like to travel. Don't make it sound like he's never invited anywhere...
...power struggle has been going on for the past decade, ever since former deans of the graduate school Edward T. Wilcox and Burton S. Dreben '49 implemented the current need based financial aid policy in the early 1970s. Using the centrally administered financial aid as a wedge, according to one account, the GSAS bureaucracy swelled under the seven-year deanship of Edward L. Keenan '57, who stepped aside in July...
...There is always some slight--and sometimes, not so slight--suspicion about a professor who spends time in administration," Dreben adds, but he says that situation is better than the alternative--unsympathetic professional administrators...
...Dreben "is not a person who seeks the limelight. If he had a choice, he would rather be, as the Japanese say, behind the screen...