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...roundtable had taken place because it was “the first time enrollment decline has ever been its own agenda item in at least five years.” Richard Harding, Jr., a second-term school committee member, disputed this, saying that all the committee members had been concerned with the issue but that they had other chief priorities in the past. “It’s not like Patty came along and we suddenly started noticing the enrollment decline,” Harding said. “We were all aware of it, but my concern...
...Review. In late March, the faculty committee released its report, stating that although faculty members are “content with the abstract principles of better representation for minorities, [there are] better ways to accomplish the same objectives.”Within a month, and in light of the concerns expressed by faculty and alumni, the Review voted to postpone the implementation of its affirmative action program if the faculty would accept the general concept behind the policy—something the faculty eventually did. Mark B. Helm ’78, the Review president at the time, recalls...
Faculty cannot receive tenure in Social Studies, which is categorized as an undergraduate degree program—not a full department. A serious concern is that this forces faculty members within the concentration to divide their commitments between Social Studies and another department...
Exacerbating this concern is the fact that until 2004, no one teaching in Social Studies had received tenure in another department since its founding in 1960. The report called the failure of faculty members within the department to gain tenure “the Social Studies equivalent of the ‘curse of the Bambino...
...John J. Curry ’19 knew exactly what to do: “Tear down the Fly Club’s back yard,” he thundered at a Crimson reporter in 1955, “and build a parking lot...I’m not concerned with whether the Fly Club is willing.”Given the confusion, it comes as no surprise that no solution emerged, and the University remained relatively aloof from the situation. Although it stepped up efforts to improve and centralize registration of cars in 1955 and 1956, the University annually...