Mon 2 Apr 2018
President Maud Mandel, 1
Posted by David Dudley Field '25 under Maud Mandel at 6:50 am
Brown Dean of the College Maud Mandel begins her term as the 18th president of Williams on July 1. EphBlog welcomes her! We are pro-Mandel and hope that her presidency is successful. (Full disclosure, our preference would have been for an internal candidate like Lee Park or Eiko Siniawer.) Let’s spend some time discussing what we know about Mandel so far. Day 1.
Start with the acknowledgments from her 2014 book Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict:
Beautiful stuff. How could we not like Mandel after reading such obviously heart-felt prose?
The modernists among our readers will insist that we have it all backwards, that we should start with Mandel’s CV, the dry listing of her professional accomplishments. I disagree. Although a stable marriage and loving family are not a requirement to be the president of Williams, they are a very good sign of character, judgment and stability. After our experience with President Working-on-Wife-Number-3, it is nice to know that Mandel will not be concerned with the dating scene in Williamstown.


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Tom Foolery says:
Standard “it takes a village” prose. Nice, but hardly beautiful or unique in a dedication. Rather than proforma, speculative analysis, let’s just wait and see what she actually does. That would be most fair.
April 2nd, 2018 at 10:18 am