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...just to see what Stephen Jay Gould was like," says Daniel Shaw a Grays freshman who intimately decided not to participate in the course's lottery itself suggestive of ticket scrambling before a sold out Broadway show. "Gould was on the cover of News week," Gruber notes. "And (Prof. Stanley) Hoffman is always in Time magazine...
...School, there have been minorities protesting the ethnic breakdown--or lack of breakdown--on the Law School faculty. The school boasts 58 white men, one Black man, and one white woman in its tenured positions. Until December of 1980, there were two Blacks tenured on the faculty, and when Prof. Derrick Bell resigned to take the deanship at Oregon's law school, minority students geared up immediately. They wanted to urge the Law School to act quickly to bring another minority who would at least maintain the old status quo, and they wanted to pressure the Law School to continue...
...Mark Lester, who has put some zing into his earlier melodramas (Truck Stop Women, Stunts), here borrows from George Armitage's cult Gothic, Massacre at Central High, to create an adolescent colony as teeming and desolate as an American Gulag. The principal is a blinkered hypocrite; the biology prof (Roddy McDowall) teaches chromosomes at gunpoint. And the school toughs-moral crustaceans dressed in swastika T shirts and the very latest leather-are led by no ordinary psychopath. Stegman (Timothy Van Patten) is also a musical prodigy: as he directs a gang rape of the hero's wife...
...presence of the students. Bell is down to earth in a way that academic giants like Stanley Hoffmann and Walter Jackson Bate can never hope to be. Few students seem to know or even like the best and brightest of the Harvard faculty. Unflappable, omnicompetent, unremittingly rational, the Harvard prof remains--with a few exceptions--cooly unapproachable...
...affiliation, but we also have recruited distinguished visiting faculty members." They are distinguished in that they are the ones who seem to teach all of the courses, while "Harvard affiliated" apparently includes grad students and people who received degrees here. Illusion and reality; tenured Harvard superstar becomes BU assistant prof A.M. 110 is APSC s-120. Does art imitate life or transform it? Whither Veritas...