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Gerald M. McCue is no laggard. One year ago, when President Bok appointed him as the new dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), the School was being torn apart by an internecine struggle over a troubled department. However, today, a little less than 30 days before he officially takes over his new post, McCue has healed the wounds in the glass house on Cambridge St. and has already demonstrated a flair for the dramatic and innovative gesture...
...Department of Energy has awarded the Graduate School of Design (GSD) $40,000 to study solar energy design...
...Boylston St. and Memorial Drive, the Kennedy School of Government has become famous for wide-eyed enthusiasm and galloping growth. The arrival of an additional 240 students and 17 professors, giftwrapped as the City and Regional Planning (CRP) program and jettisoned by the overpopulated Graduate School of Design (GSD), will certainly uphold this tradition of expansion. In fact, the move may necessitate readjustments on such a grand scale that even the K-School's wizards of bureaucracy will have to scramble to keep...
...physical aspects of city planning through most of the 1960s. When broader social and economic problems began to limit architectural options at the turn of the decade, its focus shifted to training and research in public policy. While the K-School initiated a separate Public Policy program, the GSD recruited an increasing number of CRP students for their interest in administration, not design. By the mid '70s bureaucratic theory had eclipsed architecture within CRP. Gerald M. McCue, dean-designate of the GSD, remembers that "our CRP program had become 80 per cent public policy analysis and 20 per cent planning...
...chairman of CRP, agrees with McCue's analysis, adding that "the move is not a new idea. It just seemed like it would never happen because of money and logistics." President Bok says he was unaware of the extent of the rift until last summer, when he toured the GSD during his search for a new dean. Discovering "two very different cultures within the school which were not interacting," Bok announced last fall his decision to transfer CRP to the K-School this July. Despite Kain's claim that such a step was long-awaited, many students and teachers...