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Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn said last year that Summers has tried to exert much more influence over Kirby and Gross than his predecessors, noting that “they feel constraints from across the Old Yard”—where Mass. Hall sits...
...Former University President Neil L.] Rudenstine gave University Hall [the Faculty and College administration building] a large degree of autonomy on how they handled most things,” Mendelsohn said. “I think Summers wants a lot more influence—I felt that on a number of occasions on the Faculty Council, when we would be told, directly or indirectly, that the president really did want something to happen...
...Mendelsohn said that this year’s Faculty meetings resembled “a show-and-tell session,” and he would like to give faculty members a larger role in the council’s proceedings...
...Mendelsohn said that the curricular review, the implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Women Faculty and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering, and Allston development will rank among the council’s highest priorities next year...
...think there will be a real attempt to scrutinize what is being proposed or planned [in Allston],” Mendelsohn said. “While at one level the decisions can probably be made at the Office of the President and the Corporation, to put up buildings with which the Faculty is dissatisfied will be a mistake...