Word: students
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with the Harvard Corporation, which he heads--has been in the news more than he might like as a result of the investment controversy. But the highest levels of University decision-making remain hidden from all but the most inquisitive students. That's the way Harvard has always operated, and nothing as transitory as student protest is likely to change...
...oversees all the graduate schools from his venerable Massachusetts Hall office, with the aid of four vice presidents. Except when dragged out by student activists like those concerned with South Africa, he keeps out of the headlines--emerging to release his president's report, which examines a different corner of the University each year (recent topics included the Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and relations with the federal government...
Educational crossfire also hit two interdisciplinary majors: Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies. A coalition of concerned student groups this year led protests against what they say as systematic attempts to weaken the Afro-American Studies Department. Ever since Af-Am's stormy birth ten years ago, detractors have attacked its academic validity. They believe Af-Am has no methodology and could better be studied through an interdisciplinary committee. But supporters say the demotion to a committee would cripple Af-Am by removing its right to tenure professors and choose its own curriculum. This fall an Overseers' Visiting Committee...
Housing officials separate students by sex and smoking preferences. "We try to put as many diverse types as possible in entries," Lewis said, adding "But if you have one ornithology student and one ornithologist proctor, you try to match them...
...want to. There's a chance much of your undergraduate career will center on some organization, but you'll have to find out about academics here before you'll know exactly what you can handle. At Harvard, it really is impossible to be head of the Student Assembly, the Advocate and the orchestra and still maintain straight...