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Administrators in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) emphasized that they believed the apparent suicide was attributable to personal factors and did not reflect upon the school's atmosphere...
...construction crews lay brick upon brick and the architects debate the true meaning of space, I hear the terrifying whirr which no amount of novocaine or promises of soft ice cream will make go away. Thomas J. Slegel, GSAS...
...MARKET for Harvard Ph.D. s in Sanskrit Studies or History of Art has never been particularly strong, but thing seem to be getting worse than ever for academics hoping to junk the scholarly life. For four years, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) had run an unusual six-week intensive introduction to the basics of business for some 150 GSAS students and alumni; the program, offering instruction in such topics as finance, marketing, and production, propelled a good number into high-flying jobs with Sony, Citibank, Mobil, Wang, and the like. Last week, however, GSAS officials, citing financial...
Given this track record, Harvard officials will be under extra pressure to make good on their pledge to come up with imaginative new ways to help Ph.D.'s get jobs. Kenneth Langer, a GSAS official, says placement issues are at the top of the agenda this year for the Graduate Student Council. But the one suggestion tossed out thus far--holding more seminars on alternative careers--hardly seems an adequate replacement for the high-powered assistance supplied by the discarded retooling program...
...donation, calling the professorship "a normal, no-strings chair." Still, the controversy surrounding the Khalidi appointment showcased the special difficulties attendant on gifts from foreign nations, particularly those with cultures and governments very different from our own. Edward L. Keenan, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and outgoing director of the center for Middle Eastern Studies, notes that problems may arise when foreign donors do not understand Harvard's policy of accepting only donations without conditions: "After all, American philanthropy is a very special institution in the world." The normal procedure with international donations, according...