At Mr. Levin’s side, a first lady and a conscience
Excellent article on a person who sounds wonderful.
I had Jane Levin for DS...totally old school and closed minded. Truly frustrating as a student coming in without much prior knowledge...pisses me off that she got appointed to that post without any prior experience whatsoever then had the nerve to claim that her opinions were absolutely correct. Just shows how politics works in this University.
I have to say that I completely disagree with post #3. I had Prof. Levin when I was a freshman--a freshman, it should be noted, without "much prior knowledge"--and I found her to be a warm, engaging and enormously intelligent professor.
this is a poorly edited piece. the use of quotation is confusing--when the actors have the same surname, and are related, and esp. because it's a personal bio-piece, the writer should have used first names to distinguish, rather than just keep writing "Levin said," etc.
jane levin is a spectacular lecturer and one whose enthusiasm always inspired me, even though she was never directly my teacher in DS.
also, i agree with comment number 5: what were the editors thinking on that one??
I think it's time to forgo the practice of referring to everyone by last name only, with no titles, expecially when an article is about two people with the same last name, as this one.
an amazing and hilarious profile of jane. good job at capturing her character. --a former ds-student--