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...common to see a 2600 wired to the TV set and guests jumping at the chance to rediscover their first video-game experience. And they don't seem to mind the primitive visuals. "You've got people shouting and screaming and having a great time," says Blake Fisher, an editor at the video-game magazine Next Generation, "even though the graphics are just huge blocks on the screen...
Other colleges have attempted to combat professors and their spouses' reluctance to uproot their families by creating jobs for spouses, Fisher said, but Harvard does not have such a policy...
...Even in departments where there has been successful promotion from within, the perception is that it doesn't happen," Fisher said. "People who choose to go elsewhere have a better sense of their future prospects than they do here...
...only [increase faculty size] as quickly as departments make searches, read recommendations, write dossiers, send them to the academic deans, and send it to the president for ad hoc review," Fisher says. "All of this takes time; there's a very high level of scrutiny...
...hire between 20 and 30 individuals every year, but we lose 20 or 30 to retirement or resignation, so we just run in place," Fisher said...