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...contact with a professor or grad student she would then go on and do her studies very much on her own initiative.” Wobber, who is studying chimpanzees in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was not available for comment at press time, according to her father, Edward P. “Ted” Wobber. —Staff writer Doris A. Hernandez can be reached at dahernan@fas.harvard.edu...
...Democratic nomination. Paul V. Holtzman ’83 says “there was certainly a lot of hometown support” for Kennedy at Harvard.But after Carter secured the Democratic nomination, many of Harvard’s intellectual heavyweights endorsed him, including John Kenneth Galbraith, Samuel P. Huntington, and Richard E. Neustadt.But in November, Ronald Reagan won the presidency by a landslide. That was an outcome few Harvard students had anticipated.There were only about 100 Reagan supporters on campus, Robert O. Boorstin ’81 says. And, on a predominately liberal campus, they were something...
...WRIGHT AND WRONG“The Skocpol affair more expressed tensions than caused them, I think. This was an era of charged political atmosphere,” recalls White. Indeed, the Sociology Department was not the only one to be accused of discrimination. In the spring of 1981, Josephine P. Wright, a former assistant professor of African and African-American studies, was denied tenure and then was refused a one-year extension of her contract. Wright, who is an African-American woman, filed a grievance with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that her request for a contract...
...late professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould, were caught cheating on their take-home midterm and received zeros, according to a Crimson article.These incidents caused little stir on campus, but for some, they exposed a competitive atmosphere at the College that can push students to cheat in extreme circumstances.Bradford P. Stoner ’81, who was a pre-med student in Quincy House, says that he remembers a prevailing “intense concern” at the time, particularly among pre-meds, that some students were “bending rules.” “There...
...Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...