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...House and Amherst, Massachusetts, Managing Editor, Noam S. Cohen '89 of Lowell House and New York, New York, Managing Editor, Julie L. Belcove '89 of Quincy House and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Executive Editor, Brooke A. Masters '89 of Mather House and New York, New York, Executive Editor, Jeffrey S. Nordhaus '89 of Adams House and New Haven, Connecticut, Executive Editor (Magazine Editor); Mark M. Colodny '89 of Quincy House and Washington, D.C., Senior Editor, Benjamin R. Miller '89 of Lowell House and Ellicott City, Maryland, Senior Editor, Mark T. Brazaitis '89 of North House and Washington, D.C., Sports Editor, Elsa...
...Nordhaus writes that Dean of the College I. Fred Jewett chairs this meeting. In fact, the dean first attended this year, but Director of Fellowships Kristine Forsgard chaired the meeting. Nordhaus writes that Forsgard told committee members to discuss neither committee decision nor committee procedures. In fact, no such instructions were issued...
...Nordhaus writes that Forsgard assembles a faculty/tutor committee to make nominations for University competitions such as the Luce and Rockefeller fellowships. In fact, these committees and procedures originate strictly in an administrative and advisory capacity...
Beyond these factual misrepresentations. Nordhaus's article also seems substantially misleading in its tone, which seems to suggest that OCS administration of the fellowships process is incompetent, inadequte, and even conspiratorial. We read, for example, that faculty and House fellowships officers (HFOs) have complained about the working of this "small, exclusive and highly secretive committee." The Selection Committee is by definition small and exclusive--it consists of all HFOs, the OCS Fellowships Director and, as of this year, the Dean of the College and members of the faculty...
...Finally, Nordhaus suggests discrepancies of effectiveness within each House, and this, too seems misleading. While some discrepancies surely exist given differences in experience, to suggest that HFOs hold an applicants fate in their hands is facile and ultimately harmful. It seems virtually impossible for HFOs to "play favorites" or for House letters to be inadequate...