Word: uncleared
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...rightfully requires that new centers extend beyond the interest of one or two professors and not simply duplicate the work of preexisting programs. Presently, over 100 centers exist at Harvard, and while some aptly complement its academic mission, others spring from the peculiarities of one eccentric donor. It is unclear what new opportunities Fonda’s center would have contributed to the GSE. On the contrary, mathematical biology is an interdisciplinary field which can yield tremendous research opportunities to professors in several departments under Nowak’s leadership...
...that the University squandered its opportunity for Fonda’s $12 million since Harvard relies on charity to carry out research. In finalizing the Epstein donation, the University should find the happy medium, where it can negotiate with the donor while maintaining its academic integrity. Though it is unclear whether Fonda would have budged, the University should have put more effort into negotiating the gift’s structure instead of lapsing into negligence. Harvard has a knack for putting money to good use, and if it combines a respect for donors’ wishes with its deans?...
...this point, it is unclear exactly where the Faculty will choose to pinch its pennies...
...fuzzy areas where Summers’ influence is unclear that some professors find the relationship more troubling. No one suggests that New serves either as Summers’ mouthpiece or his mole. But the “perception of a possibility” of immeasurable influence is impossible to eliminate, even though professors describe the department as a generally collegial, frank and open place. “Of course they talk to each other,” says Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler. “What they say, no one can know...
Whether the ban will affect business in local taverns is unclear, but owners agree that the ordinance will create a slew of logistical problems...