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...July, and piles of papers are scattered across the floor and tables of Assistant Dean of Freshman Lesley Nye Barth’s Hurlbut Hall apartment. As she sorts through the collection of papers, her cat wanders into the room, stepping on and destroying a few carefully ordered stacks—groups of four roommates that she had spent hours assembling as she culled 550 or so housing applications for the perfect match. The cat’s romp sends her back to step one, and she gathers the papers to rematch the students...
Such is the life of the three assistant deans of freshman (ADFs), Lesley Nye Barth, James N. Mancall, and Sue Brown, who spend nearly two-and-a-half months hand-picking rooming groups and then assigning these groups to create entryways...
...whole application is important,” Nye Barth said. “We are trying to get a whole picture of the student. It is more helpful when students say a lot in their essay...
...group, and I am enormously appreciative of the opportunities that I’ve had from Harvard to launch this work,” said Professor Hunt. “The work was incubated here at the Kennedy School, with the help of [former KSG Dean] Joseph Nye, who was a visionary dean, bringing in hundreds of women with conflicts from around the world...
...term was coined by a covey of professors at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government--Joseph S. Nye Jr., Graham T. Allison and Albert Carnesale. In their book Hawks, Doves, and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, they urge a series of steps to minimize the risk of a catastrophic accident. Among them: upgrading the hotline by creating crisis-control centers, establishing sanctions against nuclear proliferation, replacing short-range nuclear weapons in Europe with conventional warheads, holding regular meetings between U.S. and Soviet military leaders, and adding safety devices to prevent the inadvertent launching of submarine-based...