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Since the last full-scale review of the GSAS was conducted in 1969 by the Wolff Committee--who focused their attention on the size of the grad school--conditions have changed, professors and administrators say. Not only has the size of the GSAS been reduced since the reforms of the early 1970s, but even more importantly, the Wolff Committee's vision of the grad school's purpose and direction is non somewhat outdated. "The waters have been muddied in the last five-six years, and it's time now for someone to determine what the nature of the graduate school...
...last question that complicates the matter. The GSAS administration in Byerly Hall has expanded dramatically since the Wolff Committee report--to the dismay of some departments--and the issue of who actually runs the GSAS gets mixed up with the broader policy issues...
Fifteen years ago, the Wolff Committee report noted that "the gravest current problem in the Graduate School is the one summarized by the well-worn but convenient word 'morale.'... The themes of belittlement, isolation, and neglect ran contrapuntally through the chorus of complaint...
DIED. Karl Wolff, 84, storm-trooper general and Nazi military governor of Italy who negotiated the surrender of 1 million German and Italian troops to the Allies on May 2, 1945, six days before the Third Reich collapsed; after a long illness; in Rosenheim, Germany. Although he was chief adjutant to SS Commander Heinrich Himmler, Wolff after the war denied knowledge of Hitler's final solution and was not tried as a war criminal. In 1964, however, he became the highest-ranking Nazi officer to be tried in a West German court; he was sentenced to 15 years...
...Peter O'Driscoll '84, $1500 for his senior thesis entitled. "The Juxtaposition of Historical and Fictional Narratives in Jean-Paul Sartre's Le Sursis"--Lawrence Wolff, Lecturer...