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...Connor cites academic reasons--an inability to change his course of study and avoid a crushing workload--as the major factor in his decision to leave school But, though, he downplays it as a reason for turning pro, he also says. "My three years at B C weren't the best in terms of me and [Coach] Lenny [Ceglarski] getting along...
...combines a concern for undergraduates with an ability to do something about it, is that he displays little of the arrogance typical of Harvard administrators and professors. Self-deprecating and affable, Verba talks in terms of which issues he has to "worry about" rather than "tackle" or "resolve." His workload often depends on what things suddenly "fall on my desk," he says, looking around his cluttered Coolidge Hall hideaway--a sharp contrast to his stately University Hall digs...
...teaching of Lit. and Arts C-14, where he has purposely kept the quantity of reading down in the hope that students will use the extra time for a careful analysis of the texts. But he says he is aware that some students have misinterpreted the weight of the workload and labeled the course...
...least some B-School students agree that the workload changes will be beneficial and are much needed. "We had to go through a political minefield to get here," Vytas Kiselius, a second year student and member of the RCS said this spring. "Students now feel the workload and the pressure are counterproductive," he added...
Before the Medical faculty approved the changes last January, first and second year students expressed their disapproval of the plan in an informal referendum. They charged that the new curriculum particularly the increased clinical workload would but back on the freedom of choice enjoyed by previous classes. At first faculty members were outwardly sympathetic towards the students, allowing them to air their views at meetings of the student-faculty curriculum committee. Yet the final outcome suggests that the concerns of the first two classes - who will be the only current students affected by the changes had little impact...