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He says his commitment to Harvard activism may have decreased as he has become more involved in his thesis, but his devotion to activism has not declined in the least.
Oppenheimer's current work, like his thesis, focuses on the growth of America's heartland and its culture that has developed a fascination with the paranormal, anti-government and right-wing movements.
"He got the marvelous overall idea that this country was always going West," Makavejev says of Oppenheimer's thesis, "and people are living without history so they are unaware of how small this country was."
The unusual number of summas followed closely on the heels of changes in the government, history and economics departments--three of the College's largest departments. Both the government and history departments abolished general exams, and the economics department established a non-thesis cum laude track.
Wang also notes that very few ambitious thesis writers want to take the non-thesis writing track, because there is no possibility of magna or summa.