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...star Professor Cornel R. West ’74 after he criticized the academic’s foray into spoken-word stardom. Similarly, Bok took his faculty to task for pursuing lucrative asides at the expense of more academic endeavors.Bok was also the president who first purchased land in Allston??a project that Summers was intimately involved in.Perhaps the most unlikely similarity lies in the two leaders’ reaction to controversy. On the surface, Summers is depicted as brash and opinionated while Bok is lauded as a talented negotiator. However, “it is a mistake...
...capitalize on his reservoir of personal good will with the faculty and deep knowledge of academic governance to make everyone feel consulted, I think he can take the best of what Summers started—curriculum reform, wider financial aid, more support for international study, and expansion to Allston??and keep it moving in a way that won’t have to be revisited by his permanent replacement. (On Allston, placing the new Harvard Stem Cell Insitute on Western Ave. and tapping an avant-garde German architect to design it seems like an excellent start. Both faculty...
...night expressed concern about where Summers’ resignation would leave his agenda for the University. Summers said he is “very optimistic” that the University will work toward his top goals—including expanding financial aid and planning construction across the river in Allston??without him. “I feel very good about the continuity of some of the major things that have gotten started,” he said. Summers said the job of University president is “not an easy...
...simply noting, with a twinge of sadness, the definitive ending of a chapter of my life, a severing of a link to my undergraduate experience. As the University continues to evolve—for example, the Quad houses will become graduate student housing when undergraduate houses are built in Allston??this rootlessness is a feeling with which more and more alumni will have to contend...
...move into Allston will probably be the most significant development for Harvard in the 21st century. The University’s crossing of the Charles and southward expansion promise to produce valuable opportunities for scientific research, graduate education, and arts and culture. Allston??s impact on undergraduate life, however, is less certain.The Allston planners’ interim report, which was released in June, suggests several potential sites for up to four new undergraduate Residential Houses (ostensibly to replace Quad and DeWolfe housing sometime in the next 10 to 20 years). If the shift into Allston is to benefit...