Word: jewett
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Colleagues in the admissions office--notably L. Fred Jewett '57, who has been dean of admissions and financial aid throughout Malin's tenure as assistant dean--praise his experience, his stint contributing to dorm life as a senior advisor in Grays and then an assistant senior tutor in Lowell House, and his willingness to return to the temporary post he once held. But they look nonplussed when one inquires--timidly, since a negative answer would render the query so bizarre--whether he doesn't also radio-broadcast soccer. Malin himself laughs in a startled manner when the subject is broached...
...interview, "I'd never heard of the policy and no one had ever mentioned it to me." Not only did all of the other Ivy schools contribute to the guide weeks before Harvard relented, but it also remains unclear what policy Harvard was obeying. Dean of Admissions L. Fred Jewett '57 last week described the Ivy policy as one which forbids participation in guides which require schools to pay a fee to be included...
Although Fox never gave a single reason for switching, it is obvious that the rest of the Ivy League's participation and the public airing of his administration's bungling were his primary motivations. He said in his second letter to Beckham that Jewett has "recently...discussed participation in your guide with other Admissions offices in the League." All seven other schools had, apparently to Fox's astonishment, been able to decide independently on the basis of the book's merits. Fox further explained that he had not even looked at the questionnaires when making his final decision. And Epps...
...Jewett, who took the year off from day-to-day admissions duties to study the chances and implications of adhering to the aid-blind approach, spent much of the spring going from House to House for dinner, talking to groups of students. One of his main questions was how much students felt it was worth straining to adhere to the ideal. How much more, he asked, could the available money be spread (in the form of work-study and loans rather than grants) before the pressure of a work-study job outweighed the benefits of being here...
...this question, Jewett says, he found undergraduates somewhat more resilient than he had expected. Accordingly, the average self-help package for next year has increased by some $500 in term-time earnings and some $100 for summer work...