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...officers meet yearly with President Neil L. Rudenstine, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and other administrators, and have more frequent meetings with GSAS Dean Christoph J. Wolff...
...There has been no noticeable sign in recent years or now that indicates that unionization is a goal our students want to achieve," Wolff says. "Nevertheless, there are always reasons to be vigilant...
...discussion of "significant themes in Hemingway's writing career including Africa, war, nature, creativity and despair." The many panelists were great writers and journeymen, both: the Nobel laureates Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Derek Walcott as well as critically and popularly acclaimed authors E. Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff, Chinua Achebe, Frederick Busch, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and dozens of others. A hundred years after Hemingway's birth and 38 years after his death, the subject of the conference was how Hemingway has held up--not just his works, but necessarily the man himself. What is so striking about...
...ignoring women and atworst as a vicious misogynist; he is cast asanti-Semitic; he is pronounced guilty of writingAfrican-American and native African characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author a"brave coward"--take a certain joy in Hemingway'ssuicide, which proves once and for all that theman was really a posturer, masking fear withmachismo...
...Faculty also passed a motion introduced by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Christoph J. Wolff to change the number of signatures required to approve a Ph.D. dissertation from two to three. This motion was one of the suggestions in the report of the Faculty Committee on the Structure of Ph.D. Dissertation Advising...