Word: switchboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People Switchboard, a project to close the ever-growing gap between students and Faculty, and to promote curriculum reform, has faced since its inception the bureaucracy which is inherent in all universities...
...problem, however, is of a more deeply rooted nature. The University's support--both philosophic and financial--is essential to the success of People Switchboard. But active student interest is necessary to attain the Administration's backing and the eventual implementation of progressive educational goals. Such student initiated support has been minimal...
Lack of student involvement in People Switchboard does not necessarily mean that students reject the project. The absence of student support can be more accurately attributed to the apathy which has become the rule on the majority of America's campuses...
...People Switchboard developed out of the ERG's conviction that Harvard is packed with educational resources and opportunities, but that these are too often "unnoticed, generally unpublicized, and almost never encouraged." Specifically, the ERG saw the need for "much more effective communication between faculty and students concerning their mutual interests, in order to relay the kind of information that no single advisor or tutor can store...
...phony press conference by phone? I've been with high-priced public relations men all week. I know how it works. You call up seven newspapers and tell them you are Clifford Irving. They will be here with everything in 15 minutes and plug into the Chelsea switchboard. Then you read poetry to them. And even if they have voiceprints to show that you aren't really me, the voiceprints will match because they will be so eager...