Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swallow them up and spin them around a few times. They are ready to disappear into these worlds, populated by a few friends, a boss, some coworkers and a neighbor or two. The rest of the world will be at their fingertips, but they will have no real impact on anyone or anything outside their bubble. If they make waves, they will lap up against the glass that comforts and confines them...
...served as dean of the College. "He had just spent an enormous amount of time inquiring into every nook and cranny of the College." These two initiatives--both of which were protested for impinging upon on student autonomy--were the proposals in the report with the most radical, controversial impact on student life. The alcohol crackdown Lewis pursued during his first semester also drew protests...
...change in how you choose your Houses is as fundamental as anything, and PBH affects so many students on campus," says Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00. "They'd have to go and really deconstruct one major aspect of student life to make as big an impact...
Both Maull and Lewis point to some of his initiatives not discussed in the report--the status of women in the College and the appropriate place of athletics at Harvard, for example. But these, too, have been gradual initiatives which have had little direct impact on most undergraduates...
...position certainly has an impact on the things that the council wants to do that need administrative approval," Seton says...