Lisa L. Laskin
March 15, 2001
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The writer is president of the Graduate Student Council.
An Economic Presidency
Congratulations on acquiring an economist as Harvard's new president. At Princeton, we have had two consecutive economists as president. Here are items to watch for:
After about a third of the faculty are hired away, it will be time to raise faculty salaries a little. If they all stay, it would be bad economics to waste Harvard's hard-earned money on faculty salaries.
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