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...Lewis?? analysis at first seems spot on. Certainly, more time spent slaving away over academics could not possibly be good for anyone’s state of mind. But, although extracurriculars may be less stressful than academics, they can often be anything but relaxing. Harvard’s mental health problem might well be more acute if students traded extracurricular time for extra studying—but it would be far better if they realized that those were not their only two choices...
...apply early decision elsewhere, which means the College sends thick letters to some students who are legally bound to attend another school. And yes, the time and resources spent debating applicants who, in the end, cannot legally attend Harvard—88 were accepted last year, according to McGrath-Lewis??is a burden...
...Lewis??who made the final decisions with the incoming dean of the College and Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and University President Lawrence H. Summers—said filling the three slots in one year meant the selection process was “a huge amount of work...
...lack of explanation is particularly saddening over a dean so well-liked by students. Always amusingly blunt, I very much appreciated Dean Lewis?? habit of responding to my many Crimson-related e-mails (“Who’s in charge of ______?”) within 20 minutes, regardless of the hour in his 18-hour day. I am sure that the old and new Harvard regimes had an ugly clash behind closed doors (and thank you Dean Lewis for keeping it behind closed doors, unlike the shenanigans of a former professor soon to appear...
...that student voices will be muted in the ears of the new dean—after all, the restructuring itself was done in an outrageously secretive manner. Had the bureaucratic shakedown been on the table in any public forum in advance—rather than being hastily introduced alongside Lewis?? firing—students and Faculty could at least have voiced their concerns and had some chance of being heard. Instead, the new plan has been foisted on those it will most affect, without even a nod towards community consultation...