Mens et mania : the MIT nobody knows / Samuel Jay Keyser ; foreword by Lawrence S. Bacow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College department heads--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Biography.

College department heads.

Linguistics--Study and teaching (Higher)--Massachusetts--Cambridge.

Linguistics.

College administrators--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Biography.

College administrators.

Cambridge (Mass.)--Intellectual life.

Cambridge (Mass.).

Cambridge (Mass.)--Biography.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Faculty--Biography.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-.

Keyser, Samuel Jay.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters.

Contents:

pt. 1. Mens

The wrecking ball

The steps of Widener

The making of a department head

The life of a department head

pt. 2. et mania

To be or not to be a university

Housemaster

Pornography and free speech

Hacking

Role compliance

"Don't tell me what to do"

Apartheid

The aftermath

After the aftermath

What's going on here?

Recommendation

Hello, I must be going

They R us

A good university is a bad business

Chūshingura and catastrophes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-29485-0

1-283-25882-X

9786613258823

0-262-30006-0

OCLC:

759213470

Publisher Number:

9786613258823