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Because the freshman residence no longer belongs to FAS, the College will have to rent the residential space it once owned from the University...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which includes Harvard College, sold Massachusetts Hall to the University’s central administration in the summer of 2006, pulling the dorm offline completely...
...streamlining” procedure, I got a little worried. I became even more worried by his statement that he cares about the reasons why faculty members do not attend meetings, “but I think we have to be very careful to not allow the business of the FAS...to be ground to a halt because of whatever it is that makes people not come...
...Isn’t FAS business, by definition, “ground to a halt” if quorum is not reached at FAS meetings? Not in today’s modern world, of course—faculty members are not involved in most of the school’s day-to-day operations. But University Professor Stanley Hoffmann had it right when he responded to Smith by comparing the messy behemoth that is FAS central administration to the bureaucratic morass of his home country, France...
...faculty members are being left out of major decisions that shape the University, why would they show up to FAS meetings? Most students are so resigned to the fact of their irrelevance in deciding all the things that concern their happiness at school—the control of social space, party and liquor rules, educational policies—that they have given up. The College is not the same as it was in 1636, so if it is to remain the special educational community that it dreams itself to be, students and faculty members must work together to stop...