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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Locked out last August by Met General Manager Rudolf Bing-because the Met did not want to begin rehearsals until contracts had been signed with the unions (TIME, Sept. 26)-the artists had proved angrier and more obdurate than anyone had thought possible. After the Met's lawyer temporarily blocked their unemployment compensation with a legal technicality, they refused Ring's first (and not notably generous) pay offer. As, little by little, he went up, they began holding out not merely for a better contract, but also for back pay to cover the rapidly mounting number of lost...
...case, the temporary suspensions will be in effect only until regular disciplinary hearings on yesterday's actions are finished. Discipline proceedings must begin within seven days of any alleged violation...
...core of strictly-defined General Education surrounded by watertight departments to a pattern where General Education means departmental courses with a wider perspective and where interdisciplinary majors are not uncommon. The periodic discussions over minor reforms-loosening Independent Study requirements for example-have led some Faculty members to begin their own private reassessment of what a college education should...
...same administrative style which had served Harvard so well during earlier years proved to have serious deficiencies when confronted with the demands of the past year. The harsh new issues facing the University and the sharp divisions they created among the Faculty made it imperative for that body to begin groping for a new style of leadership-a style better equipped to recognize political realities to accept them, and to mediate them without endangering the essential scholarly functions of a university...
OVER 2000 Harvard and Radcliffe students and professors will begin a day-long "fast for peace" this afternoon to demonstrate their outrage over present American policies in Viet Nam. It would be foolish to believe that the fast will have any measurable impact on the American war effort, but the demonstration is nevertheless likely to have several constructive effects and should be supported...