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

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (xxiii, 223 pages)
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 -- A good university is a bad business -- They R us -- Chūshingura and catastrophes -- Hello, I must be going.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters.
Subject	Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Biography.
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
	Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935- (OCoLC)fst01435705
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (OCoLC)fst00529464
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01833430
	College department heads -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
	Linguistics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
	College administrators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
	Cambridge (Mass.) -- Intellectual life.
	Cambridge (Mass.) -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
	EDUCATION -- Higher.
	College administrators. (OCoLC)fst00867621
	College department heads. (OCoLC)fst01715715
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Linguistics -- Study and teaching (Higher) (OCoLC)fst00999234
	Universities and colleges -- Faculty. (OCoLC)fst01161748
	Massachusetts -- Cambridge. (OCoLC)fst01205363
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form:	Print version: Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935- Mens et mania. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 0262015943 (DLC) 2010043143 (OCoLC)670248326
Standard No.	9786613258823
ISBN	9780262300063 (electronic bk.)
	0262300060 (electronic bk.)

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