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...Other pundits centered their explanations on Summers’ management style. Long-time Summers critic Richard Bradley, author of “Harvard Rules,” wrote that Summers’ “Washington-style politics?? sealed his fate. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway painted a memorable picture of the management landscape of a successful, large university like Harvard. “Universities,” she wrote, “function adequately enough when everyone is left to their own devices. Incompetent management seems not to matter, the ship goes on sailing. The trouble comes...
...students will have a chance to have a significant impact on the speed of the review’s approval.But how, other than attending the occasional meeting, can students inform themselves in the first place? Where can students find out the important details of the arguments—and politics??motivating University and College policies and legislation? Staying informed is relatively easy considering the amount of information available to students. Numerous campus blogs exist online, House and dorm e-mail lists are alive and well, and The Crimson drops in doorboxes most every day. Freshman proctors and residential...
...handful of student organizations had signed onto CampusTap at its launch. Elizabeth M. Grosso ’08, communications director for the Institute of Politics?? Student Advisory Committee, said the scheduling and calendar tools of CampusTap could vastly improve her group’s communications strategies...
...people don’t buy this. Ask most passerbys what they think about President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and they’ll whisper urgently, “Be quiet!” They are all afraid of “getting into politics?? and being marked as oppositional. Young people who criticize the government are called “sell-outs” and “white-sympathizers.” Roaming thugs beat them or send them on to the cops who, on a bad day, can lock them...
...Thernstrom said that two major problems facing higher education today are “a growing gulf between political and ideological beliefs” and a “teach your own politics?? approach by faculty members. He said he joined the BAA to “combat this tendency and encourage a more balanced view on what’s going on in the world...