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Panayote Dimitras, a member of the GSAS Student Panel of Electors, noted Monday that Keenan was not of the panel's first choices, but "I feel more positive now than I did then about his potential as a dean," he said this week...
...conceivable stain on Keenan's record is the postion he has held since September 1975 on the Board of Governors of Reza Shah Kabir University, the national university of Iran at Teheran, but Keenan said Monday he will drop that position if it conflicts with his work at the GSAS...
Most people involved with the GSAS reacted favorably to the Keenan appointment. "We looked for somebody who was not necessarily an ultra-liberal, but for an efficient administrator. We believe that a lot of the problems with minority admissions at the GSAS lie in efficiency problems," Michael Harris, a spokesman for the GSAS Task Force on minority recruitment and admissions, said...
...junior faculty member in the History Department, who asked not to be identifed, said yesterday that while a tight job market accounts for most of the drop in GSAS applications, he believes a History Department "reputation" for political conservatism and continuing graduate student complaints of professor inaccessibility may have discouraged some students from applying...
...GSAS applications in these departments dropped sharply...