Word: professor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where he is is at the top of his field--Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, who moderated the discussion, praised Stern as a "champion of contemporary music" and a violinist who has "devoted enormous effort to supporting the arts" in his introduction...
Last year, undergraduates spearheading the campaign garnered the endorsement of the Graduate School of Education. About 1,000 students and 50 faculty members also signed onto the initiative, including University Professor Cornel R. West '74, who spoke at a rally last spring...
Still, though the co-education debate has died down, it quietly lingers among faculty. "Women still need women's colleges because society's playing field isn't level yet," argues classics professor Leslie Day, one of 17 women on the faculty and a graduate of all-female Bryn Mawr College. "I worry that the message the guys get here is that women are just for weekends." She rolls her eyes as a student enters her office wearing a jesting T shirt that reads WABASH DOESN'T NEED WOMEN...
...they come to their senses, seize power and undercut the venture capitalists and corporate bigwigs who make so much dough from other people's brilliant ideas. Veblen was right, it turns out. And though they never met, the man who would lead the revolution was a more recent Stanford professor, peripatetic Jim Clark...
...edits the school newspaper, has a 4.08 GPA and works 12 hours a week at a nursing home. By the middle of last year she was developing an ulcer that her doctor attributed to school stress. ("The doctor told us, 'Congratulations, I think you've got a budding college professor on your hands,'" recalls her father.) Now taking medicine for her stomach, Amy has scaled back on some activities and traded in her daily three cups of coffee for tea. Her parents ask that she log four hours a week of relaxation in front...