Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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An ardent New York Mets fan, Mandery also enjoys betting on horse and dog races. Friends say that he is just as interested in the science of betting as he is with the actual wager. "I like thinking numerically," Mandery says. "I like anything that pretends to be a science...
"The only thing I was interested in when I came here was comping the Crimson," Mandery says. He finished the comp, but chose to give up journalism for a more enticing career in campus politics.
But the students will have a difficult time persuading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to take such a step. According to Edith Ramirez '89, Spence "did not seem the least bit interested" when approached with the request for a Chicano studies department or degree-granting committee.
But despite the new ethnic studies program, Harvard students who made the original proposal say the program is too broad to meet the curricular needs of those undergraduates interested in studying different racial groups.
"Pinkie was always interested in political issues, but going along with her father quite excited her," Henderson says. "Her real committment to Pakistani politics started during those Radcliffe years."