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Putnam also said a Berkeley Professor, Nelson W. Polsby, will make a decision on a joint tenure offer by the Government Department and the Kennedy School of Government after a one-year stint at Harvard next year...
...being on the debate team, getting straight `A's,'winning a National Merit Scholarship, whileconstantly involved in theater. His firstshow--"which may still be my mother'sfavorite"--was Once Upon a Time on aMattress. He entered Harvard a hesitant butprococious pre-med--taking organic chemistry hisFreshman fall--but a stint in several excitingproductions persuaded him his vocation was thestage...
When Givelber, who did not get involved inpolitical issues until he graduated, hit theworking world, he joined the civil rights crusadewith a month-long legal stint in Mississippi. "Ihad an idea I ought to devote some time to publicservice and civil rights was the time to do it,"he says. "It was clear that this was likely thegreat moral struggle of my life...
Today Weiss's beard is flecked with gray, and he is less sanguine about his future. Since bouncing around academe for six years, he has held a variety of jobs, including a brief stint as executive editor of Playgirl magazine. Still single, he is a free-lance writer and editor living in a rented apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. He has an enviable view of the ocean, but what he really wants, he says, "is to settle down and have a family." He feels funny about turning 40 this year. "Middle age sounds a bit strange because many...
Nevertheless, their long stint at the University and their relative lack of classroom pressure make them ideal for activism. Indeed, grad students have historically played a catalyzing role in student attempts to make their voice heard in the making of policy...