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Fists Clenched. As if that were not enough, Humphrey opened his campaign with a wild, disorganized abandon that defied his advance men's efforts to bring out the crowds. Then there were the hecklers, taunting a Vice President who refused to repudiate his unpopular chief and run away from the record of the past four years. Humphrey's personal physician and adviser, Dr. Edgar Berman, complained at one point: "There is no adversity that has not been visited upon this campaign." He was not far wrong...
...least $700,000 in the red this year. Assistant Dean Richard Leahy of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences predicts that some graduate students will have to drop out because of a 25% cut in research support. Harvard's Graduate School of Education may have to abandon a promising study of how preschool children develop. Caltech will have to provide at least $500,000 of its own money to keep 80 NSF research projects going...
...necessarily "honorably." And he will have to redirect this country's resources to its own disintergrating cities, and not necessarily with that respect for the social beneficience of free enterprise that both major candidates have been extolling this fall. To meet these critical priorities. President Nixon will have to abandon the vague and simplistic formulas of his campaign, and face honestly at last the difficult situation in which this nation finds itself...
...wrote Karl Marx. "The point, however, is to change it." That, in essence, is the purposeful goal of higher education put forward by a new self-study report of the emphatically non-Marxist University of Oklahoma. Published this month, the document argues that it is time for universities to abandon the ideal of aloof scholarship that analyzes but never commits to action, that describes but never defines moral values. The true goal of the university is to become "passionately involved in questions of spiritual and moral values in the real world...
...lived through McCarthy's murderous anti-intellectualism, he has come to believe that the first task of any academy is to uphold man's right to isolate himself. "A university can promote many things beside the intellectual enterprise," he says. "But I worry the moment it starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however, to be as critical of the Right as of the Left. He has no truck for those parlour libertarians who find SDS rhetoric...