Word: friedel
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Much of the reporting, of course, carne from U.N. headquarters, where we mustered a team that itself resembles a small international body. Our U.N. coverage is supervised by German-born Friedel Ungeheuer, who has worked in Africa, Europe and the U.S. for TIME. While a Harvard student, he studied Chinese history under Benjamin Schwartz, a leading Sinologist whom he interviewed for this week's story. William Mader, a native of Hungary, recently returned...
Finally, in December, President Heffner appointed an extraordinary nine-member committee- headed by associate provost Paul F. Maeder- with a mandate to propose changes in educational philosophy and practice to the Faculty. Magaziner, Miss Friedman, and Friedel were named to the group, as was Eckelmann, an associate dean of Pembroke, and three professors...
...original reformers Elliott Maxwell '68, was back at the campus before Christmas vacation and said that he was disappointed that he didn't see more "gleam" in student's eyes. "Students do not go for 12, 13, or 14 years under a graded system," Friedel says, "and then all of a sudden say 'Hey, the pressure's off, I can decide what's important myself.' The mentality is still there...
...Undergraduate education," accord-ing to Robert Friedel, a junior who worked closely with Magaziner last year. "had become something that was 'done to' the student" according to a set of imposed rules, and not an experience "directed to the student's individual needs...
...worked on breaking down every requirement," Friedel recalled recently. "because requirements per se say that something is good for everybody. We assumed that each student is best qualified to decide what his education is going to be. When you tell people what is good for them, they learn how to beat the system, and they know how to beat it because they have been doing it for four years in high school...