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WINTER PARK, Fla.—It was the first day of Freshman Week. Crimson Key members, dripping with enthusiasm, and FOP’ers, dripping with sweat, crowded the yard. Standing in line to receive my room key, I eagerly started up a conversation with a fellow first-year. I have long since forgotten his name, which part of upstate New York he called home and to which dorm he had been assigned. I do, however, remember divulging to him that I was from Florida. “Cool,” he replied. I began beaming, excited...
...high school, politicians in Washington are only passing through. First-year congressmen are called "freshmen," and identified as a "class"-the "Class of 2001," for example. There are Christmas, spring and summer vacations: "Washington conducts its business on a political variation of the school year...
...M.B.A., and he spends his days in such seminars as Economics of the Firm and Management: People, Principles and Processes. In the evenings, he works on group projects at the apartment he shares with two other guys. In many ways, his existence is like that of any first-year student at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Yet when Schoch walks to class each morning it is not along the blustery shores of Lake Michigan but through the bustling streets of Barcelona, past Antonio Gaudi's Casa Batllo, to a century-old art-nouveau office building that bears...
Additionally, the Capital Campaign gave him the leeway to implement change on a physical level. Under Rudenstine’s leadership, Harvard renovated landmarks such as Memorial Hall and the Harvard Union extensively. Five years and $65 million went into overhauling first-year residence halls and other Yard buildings. The University reconditioned Holyoke Center and William James Hall. The business school, the law school, the medical school and the College began countless new construction projects...
Whether it’s fair or not, the biggest criticism of Rudenstine remains his interaction with students, particularly those in the College. Most students shake his hand at the first-year barbeque and then rarely see him again, and his achievements for the University—broad changes that will position the University for success thirty years from now—have yet to touch undergraduates in a way they can understand. They don’t understand his connection to the College’s strengthened financial aid, to the disappearance of Radcliffe College from their diplomas...