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Bunting, who retires from Radcliffe this June at the age of 62, will assist incoming Princeton President William Bowen in the area of special projects...
This fall, however, both the faculty and the undergraduate assembly voted against ROTC's return. But shortly afterwards, the University Council--a committee of faculty, students, and administration officials--voted in favor of its return, with both Goheen and President-elect William G. Bowen assenting...
...provost, Bowen has been the chief ax wielder during a period of severe financial crisis at the school. He used his expertise on the economics of higher education to help trim back a projected $5,500,000 deficit for the current school year to a more manageable $900,000 loss. Bowen managed to maintain a reputation for accessibility and for fair-minded analysis even among those at the university who were hurt by the cuts. In the economy drive, athletics funds were trimmed and the entire graduate program in Slavic studies is being phased out to avoid weakening other disciplines...
...Ohio business machine salesman, Bowen went through Denison University on scholarship and was the first member of his family to graduate from college. He did his graduate work in economics at Princeton on scholarship, and in 1965, at 31, became the second-youngest full professor in the school's modern history. As an economist, he has specialized in studies of concrete, practical concerns; his best-known book is an analysis of the financial problems of the performing arts in the U.S. Youthful enough to pass for a junior instructor, Bowen, who is married...
...Bowen was deeply involved in the planning of a recent Princetonian innovation-the admission of coeds. He is also an ex officio member of Princeton's Commission on the Future of the College, which has proposed that undergraduates be allowed to take their degree in three years instead of four. Closely tied to the policies of his predecessor (students once nicknamed him "Boheen"), he nonetheless has no intention of radically changing the university's assured and even ways. Bowen's most immediate problem, in fact, is ridding himself of his Scrooge image. "As pressing as economic issues...