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...aspects of the commutation is its timing. Normally, commutations or even pardons are not granted until after a sentence and judgment are final, meaning any appeals have been exhausted, according to Dan Farber, a professor at the University of California's Boalt Hall School of Law. "In a sense, then, the President is freezing something that was previously fluid," Farber said...
...five years that Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71 has served in University Hall, the College has seen the first overhaul of its core curriculum in nearly 30 years, an unprecedented increase in student social space, and a consolidation of the office of the College dean from two positions into...
Gross, a former chair of the mathematics department, came to University Hall in 2002 as the dean of undergraduate education. At the time, the office of the College dean was split between a dean of undergraduate education, who oversaw academic matters, and a dean of the College in charge of undergraduate life...
Fast-forward four years, and it appears that Gross has accomplished his initial goals: the faculty voted on a new undergraduate curriculum this spring, an office of undergraduate advising now exists in University Hall, a peer advising program, a delay in concentration choice, and a secondary-field program are all in place, and students now can congregate in a student organizations center, a women's center, the Lamont Library Café, freshman common rooms, and even an undergraduate pub. Additionally, offices for alcohol safety and sexual assault prevention exist on campus to serve students, and changes to the student handbook...
...each year and the dean of the College reports to the FAS dean, rather than to the president. According to Gross, he has only seen Interim President Derek C. Bok three times this past year—at opening ceremonies, at a lunch with freshmen living in Massachusetts Hall, and at Commencement...