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Although administrative efforts have successfully increased the number of minority professors over the past 20 years, these advances take time, says Adams House Master John G. “Sean” Palfrey ’67. A change in the makeup of the senior faculty will take years to affect the composition of the House Masters, he says...
...students living off-campus have been granted permission to retain their House affiliation if they have spent previous semesters living in another House. According to Dingman, such changes have positively affected Dudley House and made the House smaller and more cohesive. “The number of students who join in the events that the fellows host in the House have increased, and that leads to a really vibrant community...
...College only modified its system in 1989, increasing the number of students randomly assigned to Houses from 15 percent...
Despite knowing he was conservative, the Senate approved his appointment in 1986 with 98 votes, Scalia said. Now, he said, he does not know if he could get 60—the number of votes necessary to overcome a filibuster...
...they will never move out. The exodus of undergraduates from the humanities to occupational majors—coupled with the devaluation of literature and art in our society—has driven certain humanist disciplines to the brink of extinction. From the early 1970s to the mid 1980s, the number of English majors in the United States dwindled from 64,000 to 34,000. Despite the fact that more students across the country are attending college than ever before, less than four percent of them in 2004 chose to major in English, a number that has declined each subsequent year...