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...member group, organized by Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies, and Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, spent ten days in Israel interviewing government officials, including Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
...year Bok has met with committees from Winthrop and Kirkland, and some of the students on those committees say he seems genuinely interested in their opinions. But last year's appointments--in connection with his remarks on closeness with University Hall, and his last two earlier choices, Martin H. Peretz in South House and Jean Mayer in Dudley House--are suggestive of what Bok's idea of the perfect master...
...four appointments have supervisory or administrative posts for which (with the exception of Mayer) they're probably better known than for their scholarship: Peretz is head tutor of the Social Studies Department, Vorenberg is director of the Center for Criminal Justice, and Mayer is on the Board of Freshman Advisers...
...COURSE, not everyone appointed by President Pusey was exclusively scholarly either--Peretz's predecessor, Mary I. Bunting, was president of Radcliffe, and F. Skiddy von Stade '38, master of Mather, wears almost as many hats as Kiely does. But Bok's bureaucrats, by and large, seem younger, more ambitious, more into the nuts and bolts of things, and maybe closer to the central administration than their predecessors--like Charles U. Daley, Bok's vice president for government and community affairs, or Stephen B. Farber '63, special assistant to Bok, or Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration...
...wanted to extend to the Houses the sort of centralized, streamlined, standardized efficiency implicit in things like Hall's reorganization of Buildings and Grounds, Kiely or Peretz or Vorenberg might be the sort of people he'd appoint, and he might well appoint them only for five-year terms...