Lindsay Lohan smoked in Herbie. But maybe not in the way you're talking about.
 

Not to mention the half-shell bikini top that Ariel wore in The Little Mermaind...hot damn!
 

Yeah! Rich is away! The mice get to play!
 

Bambi...the first all-nude animated feature.
 

--If Harvard decides to renovate its dorms—which are in serious need of that—it will need to build a provisional dorm to house exiled students. As Yale's experience shows, there could be some unintended consequences: more people living on campus.--

Huh?

That paragraph doesn't really make sense in the context of Harvard's specific situation.

Harvard already renovates all its dorms every several years on a rotating schedule, with some "taken off line" during the summer each year and renovated by September.

And most students already live on campus at Harvard, unlike other universities. The number of commuting students at Harvard is negligible. That's why making the Houses the center of upperclass undergraduate life works relatively well -- because nearly everyone lives in the Houses. And the freshman are all required to live in Harvard freshman housing.
 

the housing issue is just the way to put undergrads in allston nothing more nothing less
 

It is, indeed a Good Friday, with too much going on at Harvard.

At the School of Education, for example, they scheduled the Forum to celebrate 10 years of the Civil Rights Project --and the departure of Gary Orfield from Harvard-- at the same time as the 2nd Annual
HGSE HARBOR CRUISE! a fun event for students to enjoy themselves before the last week of classes.

I guess it won't be possible for many students to say goodbye to Orfield or think about the fact that the Civil Rights Project is leaving Harvard.

It's a bit odd that the cruise this year was scheduled before the end of classes, but such is life in a busy place...

Friday, May 11th
7-11pm (Boarding begins at 6:30)
Semi-formal Dress

Come join your friends and celebrate the end of classes in style!
Tickets go on sale tomorrow in Gutman Library...$25 before May 1st, $30 after.
Ticket includes 4-hour cruise on the Boston Harbor, DJ, appetizers, door prizes, and your first
two drinks at the bar!

Friday May 11, 2024
5:30 pm-7:00 pm Askwith Education Forum - Researching Civil Rights: Challenges Met and Yet to Come
In recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Civil Rights Project (CRP), Gary Orfield, CRP’s co-founder and director, and Theodore Shaw, director and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will examine how researchers and legal advocates can further the aim of advancing civil rights in knowledge and policy. With a look back to the Civil Rights Project’s original research agenda and its impact over the past ten years, this discussion will consider how research on social equity and civil rights can be successfully extended to include the changing reality of a highly stratified multiracial society with a white minority. For information, contact Shawn Wade Tuttle at [email protected]. Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall.
 

Yeah, Harvard's dorms are very nice and practically everyone lives on campus.
 

The dorms are too small. And the reality is -- though I'm not sure if it's what Richard is referring to -- that new construction will lead inevitably, sooner or later, to Dean Gates finding a reason to increase enrollment and pack 'em in still more tightly.

Would love to be wrong. But isn't this ultimately what the renovation push is about? No more land is needed if you can 'reclaim' space from inefficient old buildings and pack those students in in state-of-the-art fashion.

SE
 

SE:

I agree with you-you are correct. That is what the allston project is in a nutshell-revenue producing net new income for the university.
 

Who is this Dean Gates? Obviously there will be undergraduate housing in Allston. How else does Allston beecome a part of the campus, rather than merely research park/bedroom community? It's the undergraduate housing there that will justify sending programs of various sorts over there, and I think everyone's been clear on that from the beginning. Now net increase in undergraduate numbers (vs relocation from Quad to Allston), that's another matter, particularly without incremental faculty growth. Can't have one without the other.
 

No, I think Richard's post was not about Allston but about a flex-space dorm to put kids in while they renovate to optimize the footprint of existing dorms.
 

Looking back I think you're right about the intention of the framer, SE, though Allston clearly enters in here. Interesting to see how Richard's departure gets us sidetracked by Little Mermaid, Bambi, and HGSE Harbor Cruise promoters (who ARE those guys?).
 

Richard Thomas and SE

Have you read the University's master plan for Allston-4 new dorms along the river for undergrads plus space for grad and post doc in addition to science.

What do you think will be the need for additional faculty and staff to serve that population? What happens to the current space in Cambridge....wondering what the thoughts of faculty are given the changes.
 

I don't recall whether the four new houses are purely or partly incremental. The extent of faculty increase (already planned but only in sciences) depends on that.
 

"I should note that our plans have always been predicated on the expectation that the number of undergraduates admitted to the College would not increase before about 2015, in any case." -- Jeremy Knowles, letter to the Faculty on Facuty Growth and Renewal, Aprin 2007, page 5. Of course it would take almost that long to build anything anyway ...

John Gates is administrative/finance dean of Harvard College.
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/05.19/03-dean.html
 

The New Yort Times article on Harvard's teaching... lazy journalism and lazy report writing...

What the Times article does not say is that the report is most striking by what it does not say and by who did not participate in writing it. There was no participation from faculty at the school of Education. Isn't this strange for a report on TEACHING? Similarly, there was no participation from the Business, Law and Medical Schools, which have developed distinctive forms of teaching and that have people who specialized in improving pedagogy.

Is this a sign of Skocpol's convening skills or of her ability to include people with relevant expertise in the study of important problems?

Intellectual arrogance and ineffectiveness at including people was Larry Summers problem, wasn't it? It is evident where these attitudes led Harvard. Do we need to follow the same path at FAS?
 

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As previously noted, these rhetorical questions will get deleted.
 

What an excellent appointment Drew Faust has made with Barbara J. Grosz to head RIAS. These are the kind of decisions that can help move Harvard forward. Competent management at all levels, particularly competent Deans!
 

The student hunger strike ended with a magnificent resolution. Particularly getting Harvard to agree to audit the working conditions of the workers and to share the results widely is a huge step forward towards more transparency and justice.

Way to go Drew Faust! It's a new day at Harvard.
 

Are these for real, or is this just someone who works for DGF trying to spin things?
 

Expect announcements about new Deans next week.
 

How about receiving also a disclosure of the funds raided by each current Dean since July 2001?
 

Way to do TURTLE. The era of the Turtle has begun --or is it the tortoise?
 

TURTLE?
 

The turtle era has begun...
 

If you read the Jan 29 thread on this blog, titled 'Monday Morning Zen' there's a picture of a beautiful Galapagos Tortoise and a discussion which predicted the outcome of the presidential search... with ample references to turtles and tortoises and a reference to the 'Turtle Era'.

Those who wrote on that blog appear to have had an insider's perspective of the search process.
 

I just read that thread of Jan 29. It is scary to think now who could have written that.

From that blog:

"the turtle symbolizes women’s wisdom and strength...

The Drew Era has begun."
 

thanks, ADD certainly has set in.