Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within the past year, several issues involving secrecy have arisen at Harvard. We have learned that professors have agreed to write books on condition that they refrain from disclosing the source of funds for their research and that professors consulting for intelligence agencies may be required thereafter to submit their scholarly manuscripts for agency review prior to publication. Committed as we are to the ideal of open communication, such revelations cannot help but cause concern. While our current rules regarding research may provide a framework for dealing with these issues, some faculty members are clearly unaware of the rules...
...Hung spent a year in his college's detention center before he was sent to a prison camp. "It was like they turned Adams House into a jail. They put me in a dark room, asked me to write down my faults, my crime," he says...
...United States in 1980 with no knowledge of English, Wu Hung plunged right into classes in the Anthropolgy Department. "Of course it was a culture shock," he says. "That first year I worked very hard, day and night, to learn the language." Wu Hung eventually elected to write his doctoral thesis on bronze funerary ornaments of the Han Dynasty for an ad hoc committee of members from both the Anthropology and Fine Arts departments...
...hope, therefore, that the History Department's decision to begin a program of faculty advising for sophomores--reported in a recent issue of The Crimson--will elicit broad and active participation from professors. A department's policy is dismaying when it assigns to seniors who write honors theses in British history a graduate student advisor who specializes in French history, and when it equates one grade on that thesis from another faceless graduate student with that of a distinguished senior faculty member. Under such a procedure, no one knows how many good young men and women are deterred from entering...
...more slimy candidate jumps into the fray. In the race for county commissioner in Lawrence, Kans., Agnes T. Frog, a frog, won 27.4% of the votes in a valiant effort to unseat In- cumbent Nancy Hiebert. Agnes was a write-in candidate sponsored by opponents of a proposed highway that, they contend, would threaten the habitat of the northern crawfish frog. Despite the loss, Agnes' spokesman, John Simmons, a herpetologist (one who studies amphibians), was practically jumping up and down at her showing: "Agnes leapt into the contest with all four feet. The frognosis was good when we took...