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With this acute interest, Summers has sought to exert influence on a range of College matters, from throwing his weight behind an initiative last year to offer more for-credit study abroad opportunities, to warning against what he feels is too great an emphasis on extracurriculars.
“We would like to see senior bar happen again at Club Café next year,” Chiappa says. “But with less emphasis on the fact that it’s a gay bar. We wouldn’t call it gay senior...
Yet the committees must not only examine the interaction between concentrations, but also the inner workings of the concentrations themselves. The massive economics, government and biochemical sciences are the most problematic. Not only do students get lost, but faculty find it easier to dodge their advising, administrative and teaching responsibilities...
“Right now it’s apropos,” he said. “There are a lot of feelings with football and other sports, to put less emphasis on some of them. Especially in the Ivy League.”
“After 20 years of Conant, with his emphasis on research and his involvement in world affairs and national affairs, they wanted someone who would really focus on the school and the College,” says Morton Keller, a Brandeis historian who co-wrote a book on...