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...considered their choice of concentration were in for a rude surprise last week when they sought out the final signatures necessary to declare their concentration. Just days before the deadline to file a plan of study, the economics and psychology departments announced that they were suddenly no longer allowing joint concentrations in their departments. The timing of this announcement could not have been much worse, as it forced prospective joint-concentrators in these two fields into rushed decisions and saw them scraping to correct their plans of study at the last minute. In light of Harvard’s recent...
...with Iran during the Bush Administration. It meshes with the views of the operational types at the Pentagon, who have steadfastly resisted the march to war led by some Administration hawks. The anti-war group was composed of Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and Admiral William Fallon, who oversees the U.S. forces that would have had to wage that war. In recent months, all have pushed back privately and publicly, on the wisdom of going to war with Tehran. Indeed, the Pentagon's intelligence units were instrumental in forming the NIE's conclusions...
...Sebastien D. Arnold ’10—who intended to pursue a joint concentration in economics and history until Thursday’s decision—said that while history advisers had strongly discouraged prospective joint concentrators earlier this semester, he still got the sense that there would be flexibility...
...Konika Banerjee ’08, a joint concentrator in psychology and human evolutionary biology, said her joint concentration did not require the juggling act that administrators said they are trying to avoid...
CORRECTION: The Dec. 3 news article "No Joint Fields in Ec, Psych For 2010" incorrectly implied that the Psychology Department and History Department ended joint concentrations last week. In fact, the Psychology Department first voted to end joint concentrations in September and made the decision public at that time, according to Laura L. Chivers, the department's advising administrator. The History Department voted to end joint concentrations two years ago, according to Adam G. Beaver '00, the assistant director of undergraduate studies for history...