Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cathasaigh's tenure will fill the long-standing void left by Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies John Kelleher, who retired in 1986, said Department Chair Patrick Ford...
Epps noted that the recent growth in Greek life at Harvard is a response to this weakness. The void that leads students to sororities and fraternities--small homogeneous communities--is the same one that leads students to homogeneous blocking groups and homogeneous houses. If the College seriously addresses this issue, it will solve both problems. If it does not, it will solve neither...
Epps defines this "void" by saying that it is not easy for students to meet each other at Harvard. He calls for more interaction between the faculty and the students and he feels that the Loker Commons can provide the location for such interactions. These interactions would in turn fill the "void" that Epps is referring...
...Thus the void or the problem which Epps sees with the social life at Harvard focuses more on an intellectual exchange of ideas that he feels students are not engaging in. If you ask me, I hardly believe that this is what students regard as the problem with the social life here...
Perhaps it is a good thing that Dean Epps has placed the Harvard social life on his "things to do" list. It is an issue that many Harvard students feel needs to be addressed. However, Dean Epps has come up with the wrong solution for a "void" or a "problem" that doesn't even exist. In a way, successfully addressing the question of Harvard social life may mean breaking away from Harvard administrators' stubborn belief that a serious and well-thought out intellectual exchange is the defining factor of the Harvard social scene...