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Despite the inclement weather, Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 were not at home when the protestors visited.
Knowles agreed, writing that the land would "provide welcome breathing room for the University as a whole."
Although discussion of the material in Knowles' letter was postponed until the next faculty meeting, yesterday's meeting focused on funding for improving 50 acres in Allston recently acquired by the university, which President Neil L. Rudenstine said would free space closer to the Yard for FAS use.
Aside from space concerns, Knowles' letter also cited faculty recruitment and increasing the size of the Freshman Seminar program as priorities.
Knowles said after the meeting that many of the changes he suggested in his letter regarding recruitment, including increasing both the number and the scope of concurrent position searches, were already underway. But he said the future prospects for increasing the size of the faculty would not be affected one...