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...high-water mark for undergraduate activism is, by most accounts, the University Hall takeover of 1969, in which students—frustrated by the University’s failure to distance itself from the United States military effort in Vietnam—poured into the office space of key FAS administrators...
...rare interviews over the past few months, President-elect Drew G. Faust has steered clear of making precise commitments to improving student life, preferring to focus on reforms to undergraduate education instead. FAS administrators have taken a similar tack, arguing that it is time to follow several big-ticket social initiatives with a costly push to modernize the curriculum...
Even as he directed hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary funds toward concerts, new cafes, and a campus pub, Summers insisted near the end of his term that a mechanism needed to be developed inside FAS to pay for such initiatives...
...compared to the three deans who preceded him. “Mike Smith is an excellent teacher, a distinguished computer scientist, and a talented leader known to his colleagues as someone who galvanizes others in pursuit of common goals,” Faust wrote in a letter to the FAS community yesterday. “He has emerged as one of his generation’s most influential experts on computer architecture, while working creatively to connect technology with a broad array of other fields.” Smith, who teaches the popular undergraduate course Computer Science...
When four seniors briefly disrupted Mueller’s speech by shouting slogans from their seats, HUPD disregarded Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) regulations stipulating that non-violent protesters be given a warning before they are removed from an event, and instead immediately and forcefully ejected the protestors. Once outside, the four were arrested and charged with disturbing a public assembly, a charge which carries a potential penalty of a fine and up to a month in prison...