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...Divinity School, and he was certainly correct to avoid a rash statement of policy--whether favorable or unfavorable to the sanctuary. By doing so, he would have seemed emotional and impulsive and done a serious disservice to the Divinity School and to himself. Stendahl's single positive decision, to appoint a six-member faculty committee to serve as liaison with the students, was also correct...
...vote to appoint Sullivan was not unanimous. Like his predecessor, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who served as manager from January, 1966, until Janury, 1968, Sullivan holds only a 5 to 4 majority on the council. DeGuglielmo was fired by the council last January when he lost two of his five votes in last November's elections...
After the firing of DeGuglielmo, the Council said it hoped to appoint a new manager within 90 days, by the middle of May. The Council was deadlocked on the manager issue for nearly twice that period, however, until the new coalition, breaking across old pro- and anti-DeGuglielmo lines, came together to hire Sullivan. Public Works Commissioner Ralph J. Dunphy, who served as Acting City Manager for the interim, has returned to his former post...
When Franklin Murphy decided to step down as chancellor of U.C.L.A., the California board of regents could have followed the normal practice in finding a successor: appoint an acting president, sound out candidates, eventually settle on a president who had made a name elsewhere. Instead, the regents satisfied themselves, faculty and students by staying on campus. Early this month, Charles E. Young, U.C.L.A.'s vice chancellor, officially took charge of the 28,000-student campus. Only eight years out of graduate school, Young is, at 36, the nation's youngest head of a major university...
...court's 15 judges to six-year terms. Their extensive powers will include the right to interpret the constitution, decide on the dissolution of political parties opposed to the republican form of government, and review all laws, decrees and administrative decisions. Most important, the Supreme Court will appoint all lower-court judges; the positions will no longer be political plums to be awarded by executive whim. Plans call for legally trained justices of the peace to be placed in every district, bringing the law to the province level for the first time...