Word: shieber
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Although it was on the council’s agenda, discussion of a letter penned by council member and Welch Professor of Computer Science Stuart M. Shieber ’81 was postponed because of Shieber’s absence from the meeting...
According to professors who have read the letter, Shieber highlights scientists’ main concerns about the University’s plans for Allston—taking issue with the decision to leave the Law School where it stands while dividing science facilities between the new land and Cambridge. While scientists have opposed a potential divide in FAS sciences for years, the letter marks the most explicit criticism of an Allston science campus...
...Shieber countered that other facilities being discussed as candidates for a move would actually be harmed by such a step...
According to the faculty member, Shieber cited his own department—the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences—as an area with more undergraduate teaching responsibilities and fewer space needs that would be best served by staying in Cambridge...
...Shieber also is said to have pointed out that even if large undergraduate science classes were still held in the Science Center, the scheduling of smaller classes in Allston would be disruptive to students’ lives. He estimated that if all science classes of fewer than 20 students were to be held on the planned campus, it would require students to make more than 200,000 cross-river hikes annually, the faculty member said...