Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continue to work during coffee breaks. "The new offices definitely make [Boylston] more communal," according to Mann. This openness comes at the expense of office space, however, which was significantly reduced for all of the departments. According to Ms. Randall, however, each of the departments had input into their own areas. "We met with each of the five departments, and they put together a design team including professors and grad students." The architects worked with the departments according to their individual needs, but could not always accomodate everyone; for example, Romance Languages' desire to allocate more space for its numerous...
Wilson then opened the floor for "comment"-- rather than questions--explaining that input from alums would be helpful for her to take back to the negotiations...
...members of U.S. News's own top-25 club: Berkeley, Tufts, Rice, M.I.T. and Wesleyan. Critics rally around Stanford president Gerhard Casper's censure of the "specious formulas and spurious precision" of the lists. What is wrong, many say, is that the conclusions are based too much on input--the current reputation of each school and the attributes of incoming students. More helpful, they say, would be a measure of output--what consumers (that's what applicants really are) are likely to get in exchange for as much as $120,000 at today's prices...
...President Wilson and other administrators don't seek input from students, students should show that they care by thinking and talking about Radcliffe's future. Student groups such as the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Undergraduate Council have an opportunity to influence change by acting...
...acknowledge the need for an academic hub of gender studies; clarify once and for all Radcliffe's ambiguous role on campus and define all students equally as undergraduates at Harvard College. But the reception accorded to Radcliffe's final form may ultimately depend on whether the administration takes the input of alumae and students seriously in the decision-making process...