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Spence found Safran at fault for failing to report a $45,700 grant from the CIA for an October 1985 conference on Islam politics. Safran resigned as director of the center following Spence??s investigation, retaining his professorship...
...Still, Spence??s report praised Safran, saying that “his erudition and objectivity as a scholar have not been questioned and are not in question despite the recent controversy.” Spence said he accepted the resignation with “sadness and deep reservation...
Spence was unprepared for the level of work Harvard required. “I had never even heard the word calculus before and I wanted to be a biochemistry concentrator,” she laughs. Spence??s shaky math skills, something that she attributes in large part to the limited curriculum of her high schools, meant that she spent most of her first year catching up. Frustrated with academics, Spence threw herself into her extracurricular activities—rowing, playing viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and writing a column in an English newspaper contrasting college life...
America obliged. Most Harvard students are ignorant of the controversy that Spence??s admission had raised across the pond. “Most people didn’t have a clue,” she says. “The only people who had heard anything were my roommates who decided to Google me. ” Spence did generally avoid international student groups because many foreign students were aware of her situation...
Somewhat surprisingly, Spence??s first year was characterized not by cynicism, but innocence. “I was probably one of the most naïve freshmen you could imagine. Everything surprised me,” she remembers...