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Yale’s wide array of on-campus social events is due in no small part to the strong support of the administration. “On issues of student social life, [the Yale administration] takes its lead from the students,” says Betty Trachtenberg, Dean of Student Affairs at Yale. Through Yale’s residential college system, the Yale administration serves a large role in financing student social life. According to the Yale Herald, the administration provides each of its residential colleges with $8,000 specifically for parties and other student events. This amount...
...Mark D. Trachtenberg, a librarian who is running as a Ninth District candidate for the Boston City Council, criticized O’Brien’s campaign strategy...
...Destined to be a video-store perennial, Robert Trachtenberg?s 85-min. bio-doc, narrated by Stanley Tucci, does a nice job of Gene-splicing: inter-cutting Kelly movie clips with comments from an unusually wide range of friends and savants. The friends (wife Betsy Blair, daughter Kerry, director Stanley Donen, actress Debbie Reynolds) are neither fawning nor vengeful. The experts (biographers Clive Hirschhorn and Stephen Silverman, critics Elvis Mitchell and Jeanine Basinger) are helpful, precise and affectionate. It turns out that even Peter Wollen, the most serious film theoretician in the English language - Lacan?s brain encased in Beckett...
...Trachtenberg is as aware as everyone else of Kelly?s achievements and limitations; these were sometimes the same thing, like his ambition, which was great for movies, tough on his co-workers. The Hollywood numbers are smartly chosen, and there?s some rare footage: of the teen Gene dancing, and of Gene in "Pal Joey," filmed surreptitiously by a fan. (The documentary also commits a mortal sin. In the middle of the single most famous shot in the Kelly oeuvre - from "Singin? in the Rain," when Gene is whirls on the rain-drenched street and the camera cranes back...
Both Wais and Trachtenberg say student concerns have been adequately addressed under each of their administrative structures. Wais argues that universities should take the opportunity to evaluate their administrative structure when a key figure retires or resigns...