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...even the relatively bland variety found in the American Southwest. He is convinced that the survival of public universities is at stake, a feeling that many other citizens share. In the past four months, he has engineered the abrupt departures of six administrators, including Chancellor Harry Ransom and President (Austin campus) Norman Hackerman-both of whom, it is thought, were too soft on student militancy to suit Erwin. The latest casualty: Dr. John R. Silber, 43, one of the country's leading philosophers, who was fired as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, though he still retains...
Regent Erwin, who was appointed to the board by Governor John Connally in 1963, is a rich, 50-year-old Austin lawyer, a longtime crony of Lyndon Johnson's, and a former Democratic National Committeeman. He is now emperor of the University of Texas. His idea of a great university is one where teachers teach, students study and regents govern at his direction. His strict construction of those views has kept him at constant odds with students and faculty...
...over the uprooting of some stately oak and cypress trees to make way for expansion of the football stadium. He then pushed through a rule forbidding administrators to negotiate with disruptive students. Last January a straw poll of the 32,000 students at U.T.'s main campus in Austin showed 80% favoring Erwin's impeachment on the ground that he had "unwarrantedly interfered" with school operations. In the aftermath of Cambodia and Kent State, he refused to close down the Austin campus: "I'm unwilling to pay taxes to support an institution that just turns things over...
...employee benefits that have become an American norm. Children work in the fields partly to maintain the family income, partly because their mothers simply cannot afford to stay at home to look after them. To answer for his company, Coca-Cola President J. Paul Austin was called up before the subcommittee. Rather than try to defend Coca-Cola's record, Austin was refreshingly candid. He concluded that the living conditions of the workers are indeed "deplorable...
Simple Amenities. Though Coke has owned the groves since 1960, Austin said, he awakened to the migrant workers' plight only in 1968, after he had begun reading about Cesar Chavez's drive to organize California grape pickers (see THE NATION). Austin sent J. Lucian Smith, president of Coke's food division, to inspect the Florida groves. Smith reported back to him that the workers' living conditions "could not in conscience be tolerated by the Coca-Cola...