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Specifically, Harper disagreed with the decision of the Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, to give Summers a three-percent salary raise...
Ogletree also says that Harper’s resignation—which came about because Houghton had cut off debate over Summers’ salary—will encourage the Corporation to be more tolerant of disagreement in the future...
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Houghton Mifflin; 232 pages; $20) couldn't be more different from We Are On Our Own, yet it shares a focus on one parent's story. Bechdel zooms in on her enigmatic, controlling father, who, we learn early on, was an apparent suicide during the author's late teens. Now in her forties, Bechdel has gained a strong reputation for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a long-running weekly strip currently up to its eleventh collected edition. For Fun Home, her first long-form work, Bechdel has created...
...Monday University Hall announced that Jeremy R. Knowles, the Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry who led the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) through the 1990s, will return as the interim FAS dean. In choosing Knowles to replace William C. Kirby, interim President Derek C. Bok (and, by association, the University) has signaled his commitment to internal harmony after a year of discord...
...rapid growth in the Faculty’s ranks. The FAS Resources Committee said in January that the school could face a $100 million deficit in 2010 if it does not reel in spending, ramp up fundraising, or dip further into the endowment.In an interview Monday, Knowles, the Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry, said he was not ready to commit to any changes in policy.“I am probably known as a fiscal conservative, and I like to build on secure foundations,” Knowles said. “But I must first reacquaint myself with...