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Finally, many of the most important decisions that are currently being made at the University concern the planning of our vast new campus in Allston. By the 1990s, community opposition had essentially shut down any new construction in Cambridge. If the University is to grow, that growth must occur across the river. The inevitable consequence of Summers’ belief in undergraduates and the life sciences is that much of the new campus will be devoted to expanding life sciences and improving undergraduate life. Summers coupled that vision with an increasing understanding of community-building. He championed new housing...
...residents expressed concern that this fiscal success cut into the quality of City services...
...concentration options available to her, unless she risks declaring a concentration in a department with which she has not had any contact. She may not recognize until a few years later that Environmental Science and Public Policy, for example, would have been a better fit.Of course, there is the concern that this delay will encourage students to idly waste three semesters traipsing through the course catalog at the expense of more advanced coursework later. Departments, however, will suggest courses for potential concentrators, so students with an interest in a particular field will be guided toward suitable introductory courses that...
...received the most important vote of confidence from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that a man could receive this fall, when Professor Elisa New agreed to marry me.” ‘VERY OPTIMISTIC’ Some supporters of Summers in attendance last 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...
While this tendency to treat Wellesley students as less than women is common to male college students across Boston, most horror stories or awkward anecdotes concern MIT, prompting the creation of a facebook group called “For Better or Worse...I’ve Hooked Up With an MIT Frat Boy.” Wellesley’s close ties with MIT, ties which traditionally had been with Harvard, may be the cause of this...