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...part of Spence's position that has yet to emerge clearly is her role as a liaison between House masters and the College dean. In the past, Whitlock says, masters have been free to turn wherever they wished for assistance--which in many cases led them directly to Dean Rosovsky. But a draft report of the dean's Task Force on Undergraduate Life suggested a more identifiable place for masters to go to for information and aid, as a way to more efficiently utilize House resources and to erase inequities between House facilities...
...very-dim shadows, of course, there is always Dean Rosovsky, who has proven himself perfectly willing to move administrators who don't fulfill the role he expects of them. Whitlock describes Rosovsky's experimentation with administrative personnel as similar to a civil service model, under which career administrators are moved around until they find a place that fits their capabilities. In addition, Rosovsky's conviction that administrators should be moved around so they don't get stale adds a sense of impermanency to any stage of University Hall's organization--Arthurs, for example, now holds her third title in four...
Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty and a clinical psychologist who was dean of the College during those years, suggests another element to what he considered a College-wide depression. Freshmen and sophomores from the early '70s, and the high school graduates who followed them, were tired of political activity as well as worried about their futures. But even as they gave up the political goals of their immediate predecessors, he says, they felt guilty. "They came after a group of heroes," Whitlock says, "and they knew they weren't going to be anything of the sort...
...Whitlock describes that period between 1972 and 1974 as a bleak one at Harvard, when students were caught up in feverish competition. Not that students don't worry about grades now, he points out; but between '74 and '72, he says, students seemed terribly afraid of failure. They already felt they had failed as revolutionaries by getting out of politics, he says, and they could not tell what would happen to them if they also failed in getting into professional schools...
...that kind of "total lack of joyfulness" died down after 1974, Whitlock says, along with the rise in psychiatric problems that accompanied it. "Both extreme idealism and extreme cynicism are unrealistic," he says, "and students now seem to be more willing to deal with their problems with a sense of humor, realistically...