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John H. Summers, Mahan’s thesis advisor in Social Studies, says that Mahan maximized on his unique experience as UC president to “articulate the gap between the experience that comes with a liberal arts education and what it’s actually like to go to school here...
...rhetoric of academia was still being pushed from above, Summers explains, but Mahan discovered that the reality of campus life was that students are regrettably driven much more by preprofessional ambitions...
...thesis was a personal exploration in a lot of ways,” Mahan says. “I had to come to terms with the fact that for the most part I had instrumentalized my academic experience and focused more on just getting through the classes than really being changed by them...
While the grueling UC schedule continued to dominate his time, Mahan’s ongoing personal crisis occupied his mind. The UC proved unreceptive to his calls for more forceful positions on divisive political questions, but Mahan tried to use the “bully pulpit” of the presidency to make a difference...
...February, with his UC term behind him, Mahan joined forces with former Black Men’s Forum president Brandon M. Terry ’05 to launch a protest fund in opposition to the University’s investment in PetroChina, an energy corporation with ties to the Sudanese genocide...