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...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...
From his days in the Society of Fellows, Dreben has contacts in every field whom he says he calls on for advice on particular tenure cases...
...Dreben complains jovially about the burdens of all his administrative responsibilities--which he calculates take more than 58 percent of his time...
...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...