Word: ves
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Meanwhile Hadzi is hoping for a sabbatical in 1984-85. He has served as acting director of the Carpenter Center for one year and is currently acting VES department chairman. Should he take time off, Hadzi will have the time to pursue all his new interests, perhaps taking them as far as India or Japan
Eight seniors will not graduate with their classmates on Thursday, as a result of a Faculty Council subcommittee's refusal last week to change their failing grades in a Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) course...
Though the committee concluded that the course "could have been better administered," it decided not to raise the 13 failing grades in Senior Lecturer Paul Rotterdam's VES 104, "A Theoretical Approach to 20th Century Art," according to committee chairman and Associate Dean of the Faculty Sidney Verba...
...spent the following year putting the film together at Harvard getting independent study credit for this time consuming activity from the VES department. His effort paid off, for when the film was shown at Harvard at the end of the year. Russell Mittermeier of the World Wildlife Fund(WWF) happened to be in the audience and was impressed with Young's work. Young agreed to volunteer to film a documentary for the WWF about the muriqui, an endangered South American monkey that lives in what is left of Brazil's Atlantic tropical forest...
...final effect is of a more general nature. When VES is insufficiently funded, the department is unable to give adequate attention to students other than admitted concentrators. This creates the impression, however unintended, that these students are an unwanted burden on the department's human and physical resources--an atmosphere that is certainly not conducive to the enthusiastic pursuit of knowledge upon which a university is based...