Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS PERFECT DAY by Ira Levin. 309 pages. Random House...
After a year and a half of intensive preparation, student reformers at Brown, led by BMOC Ira Magaziner, issued a 450- page report recommending extensive changes in the school's undergraduate curriculum. Their report was released in January, 1968; yet by June, it remained virtually unread...
...achieved radical ends," Susie Friedman says, "but we did it through orderly and established processes. A lot of this was due to the tradition established by Ira- that you could get things done if you did your homework...
MAGAZINER came to Brown from Lawrence, N.Y. as a freshman in September, 1965. (Harvard turned down his application.) He graduated last June, with a Rhodes scholarship for study at Oxford. Students and faculty alike still speak of him with something approaching awe. "Ira was the most brilliant student we've had around here for a long time," says F. Donald Eckelman, the dean of the college. "I think it'll be a dozen years before we see another like...
...compulsive-activist. As a freshman, he led a campaign to undo the requirement that students buy all their meals in campus dining halls. He was elected president of his class, a post he was to win again each year he was at Brown. In short, as one senior recalls, "Ira was amazing. He never did anything that didn't work out. And when he was done, the class had an enormous surplus...