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...schools by 1978-the provincials wanted to pool their educational resources by closing two of the five existing Jesuit theologates and strengthening the remaining three. Chosen by Arrupe to survive: Cambridge's Weston College, Chicago's Bellarmine School of Theology and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Sentenced to die: the Jesuit theologate at St. Louis University, which will be resurrected as a theological graduate school and non-Jesuit seminary, and Woodstock, which may not survive in any form...
...brought together scholars, members of Congress and TIME editors. The panel participants included Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, executive director of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; Dr. Charles O. Jones of the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Nelson W. Polsby of the University of California at Berkeley; and Dr. Richard F. Fenno Jr. of the University of Rochester. They discussed the state of Congress today, analyzed the institution's loss of powers and considered ways in which it might improve both its workings and its status in the country. A fifth and final conference will...
...delegate powers to the President, then sit back and carp or applaud, depending on whether what he does is popular or unpopular. If it's unpopular, we can say, 'What a terrible thing. We wouldn't have done that.' " Berkeley Political Scientist Nelson Polsby; author of Congressional Behavior, finds legislators hampered simply by their need to get reelected. While the public expects Congressmen to be generalists, competence in a complex age requires specialization-a dilemma Polsby would resolve by urging constituents to expect less "omnicompetence" in their representatives so they can concentrate on their specialized committee...
...academic mind there push, in all their luminosity, Faust's lowering words to Mephistopheles." The lines he goes on to quote do not, as it happens, come within half a mile of the subject of vampires. Professor Wolf, as he explains, was sitting one sunny day on the Berkeley campus watching girls and feeling randy when he happened to think of Faust. And so? So nothing; Wolfs trained academic mind drops the thought, satisfied that it has served its purpose as a lyrical prelude...
...birth to the Panthers. His chances are at present uncertain, but other Bay Area Panthers have already proved that they can gain access to political power. Ericka Muggins, 24, who only 19 months ago stood trial in Connecticut with Scale for murder, is today an elected member of the Berkeley community development council, the city's antipoverty agency. Other Panthers have won six of the 18 positions on the West Oakland Model Cities governing board and four of the 14 seats on the Berkeley antipoverty board. Elaine Brown is now running for the Oakland city council...