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...traditional concern for undergraduate education and life, and, no doubt, it caused its share of problems. (I remember, for example, when my roommates and I dropped an orange down the ventilation shaft from our suite on the third floor—the fruit fell to the ground floor, where it rotted, thereby eliciting a gentle but firm warning from President Rudenstine’s office never to do it again...
...dean needs to forcefully represent the views of the Faculty and maintain a strong relationship with the president. And when policy disagreements arise between Summers and the new dean—as they surely will—the dean should not hesitate to firmly stand his or her ground. He or she must not be seen as a mere executor of the president’s wishes. Luckily, Summers’ reputation for favoring intelligent argument among his advisors means that a working relationship and a strong Faculty leader need not be mutually exclusive...
Kirby’s tenure, which began in July 2002, has been dominated largely by the Harvard College Curricular Review, which has been plagued by criticism that it lacks ground-breaking ideas and a strong guiding philosophy. Progress on the review stalled last year while the Faculty’s attention was occupied by debate over Summers...
...curricular review’s progress ground to a halt last year as Faculty meetings were monopolized with discussion of Summers’ comments on women in science, culminating in a vote of no-confidence in March...
...Bush tries to right his presidency and give his party a stronger footing going into the November midterm elections, where the historical trend has been for the party in power to lose a substantial numbers of seats. (The notable exception was 1998, when Bill Clinton?s Democrats actually gained ground...