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...Sylvia J. Simmons, associate dean of admissions and financial aid, will leave Harvard this fall to become assistant vice president for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts...
...Following the University's budgetary first commandment, "Each tub shall sitteth on its own bottom," the services of OIT consultants are structured on a fee for service basis, with analysts paid between $10 and $25 and hour according to Guy J. Ciannavei '55, manager of the computing center. OIT's predecessor, the computing center, violated this rule, running up a deficit of over $1 million so in 1972 the center went through a shake-up, with the dismissal of several top officers, the disposal of a large IBM computer, and the laying off of about half the center's staff...
Former Crimson President Richard J. Meislin '75, who is now a reporter trainee who writes almost every day for The New York Times, called the elimination of the journalism option "regrettable. Harvard has always considered journalism a second class non-profession, an attitude which is far off-course...
Faculty members always view the way students act now against a backdrop of the late '60s and the early '70s, when students were willing to jeopardize their academic careers to protest events within and outside the College. Five years ago, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, found his classes frequently interrupted by students who objected to his theories of the genetic element in intelligence quotients. Sometimes the protests grew so heated that it was difficult for him to teach the rest of the course. "There probably weren't more than two dozen students involved in the demonstrations and public displays...
Whitlock's feeling that the College has changed since that post-'72 period is born out by a profile of the Class of 1975, compiled by Robert J. Ginn Jr. of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL). Between 1974 and 1975, the percentage of seniors in each class who were unsure of their eventual vocations at the time they graduated more than doubled, jumping from 4.1 per cent to 9.1 per cent. And although 95 per cent of the Class of '75 told the OCS-OCL they planned to eventually attend either graduate or professional...