Word: ocl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Alumni Records office has no geographical breakdown of recent classes. Officials say such information languishes on computer tapes somewhere. At the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL), however, there may be a clue. A couple of years ago, an OCS-OCL project required the interviewing of alumni from the five most recent graduating classes. For convenience, OCS-OCL workers decided to interview only alumni living in the Boston metropolitan area. After culling names and addresses from the records, the office discovered that fully 20 to 25 per cent of recent graduates lived around here...
There's not much that the OCS-OCL tells those who plan to stay around. The office publishes booklets and memos advising students on all sorts of career opportunities and pitfalls, but nowhere in that avalanche of print is there anything called "After Harvard, Cambridge...
...when Harvard officialdom tried to encourage students not to register to vote in Cambridge, first, last spring, when a letter from general counsel Daniel Steiner '54 warned that doing so would subject the newly enfranchised to a multitude of tax liabilities, and then, this fall, when an OCS-OCL newsletter warned pre-meds that it could hurt their chances of getting into home-state med schools, Wylie took on the University...
...springy joints, Fisher is also a connoisseur of junk-heaps, and for the past few weeks has been salvaging wooden beams from his neighbor's yard. He is building a sculpture in his kitchen. He calls it "lobster pot" and it is destined for a spot in the OCS-OCL, library, Lobster Pot is a nexus of three pier-like beams jutting up from the floor and plastered with wooden slats that look like misbegotten orange crates. Lobster Pot is ugly, but Fisher's visitor doesn't know...
...first he suggests that Fisher's colleagues at OCS-OCL might not like the piece, but Fisher only replies that they will have to wait around for his next sculpture. It seems that Fisher has already begun planning his next, a snakish coincidence of twisted plastic pipes--again, salvaged--and that no arbitration by outside judgment will deter him. Still, the visitor is perplexed. "Aren't you a bit foolhardy?" he ventures...