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What those fancy titles mean is three weeks of intensive class sessions with professors drawn from the K-school and elsewhere, three weeks of case studies and problem-solving, three weeks of getting to know people from all over the country who have the same problems that...
John M. Kain, chairman of CRP, will keep his headquarters in Gund until additions are built onto the K-School, a project due for completion in late 1982. Until then CRPites will toil far away from their official new home...
...grand tradition of Broadway and Hollywood, the Kennedy School of Government brought Harvard a bit of the old sparkle and a splash of the spot light this year. Using the glamorous Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum, a three-story atrium smack in the middle of the K-School structure, as his stage, Nicholas Mitropoulos, assistant director of the IOP, orchestrated a gala revue of presidential candidates, prominent journalists, and other luminaries. After 105 presentations and an attendance record which would put some major league baseball teams to shame, Mitropoulos can lean back and reflect, "I think we were pretty successful...
...Forum has put the K-School in the headlines and on the map. President Carter took such a shellacking from some of his competitors, who criticized his affection for the White House rose garden from behind the Forum's simple wooden podium, that presidential press secretary Jody Powell complained in March, "There seems to be a pattern developing that whenever any candidate for the presidency of either party experiences a major defeat, he responds by going to Harvard and attacking the President...
...excitement in the Forum helps the Institute fulfill its mission of serving as a link between the ivory tower and the smoke-filled political backroom and main street. Others at the K-School agree; no one has anything but praise for Mitropoulos's and Moore's efforts. "The relationship between the school and the Forum has been a healthy one," says Ira Jackson '70, associate dean of the K-School, adding that, "The activities that go on there provoke intellectual curiosity and broadly disseminate information. The Forum also provides a psychological bond for all people who work in this place...