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...with seven...Brown Coach Wendy Anderson was very impressed with Crimson forward Char Joslin's play last Saturday, and said she would vote for Joslin for lvy League Rookie of the Year. Harvard goalie Katsias finished third in the Rookie of the Year balloting last after turning in a stellar rookie season...
Harvesting pigskins for this dynamic trio were Kevin Guthrie and Derek Graham, both stellar receivers who grabbed the top two spots in every receiving category Princetonians have ever recorded...
...dismayed and saddened to read in The New York Times that Associate Professor Alan Brinkley has been denied tenure. It seems unfair that with a stroke of his pen Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence can add Brinkley's name to the list of other stellar junior faculty members like Bradford Lee, Robert Watson, and Paul Starr who now grace the halls of universities like UCLA and Princeton after being refused tenure at Harvard...
This fall's appointment decisions--as well as those last year regarding popular Psychology and Sociology professors James Stellar and Paul Starr--have only reinforced the role of junior faculty as disposable commodities whose time spent teaching often serves to subsidize older professors who may then forsake the undergraduate community for their research. The Catch-22 of Harvard's publish-or-perish tenure policy is that it ultimately rewards a non-commitment to teaching...
...this is where the issue hits home for undergraduates. Consider: Last year over 1000 students signed a petition on behalf of Stellar's appointment to a lifetime post--an effort that came to nothing. Brinkley and Lee consistently teach some of the most popular courses in the book and bear a great burden of their department's teaching load. Brinkley and Starr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, now at Princeton, also practice a cogent writing style in their academic work that promotes accessibility to their research. The University itself honored Lee with the Levenson Award as Harvard's most outstanding...