Word: bradford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty members of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) strike within the next month, the administration has threatened to fire them and hire new instructors, Derek Bradford, associate professor of Architecture and chairman of the faculty negotiating team, said yesterday...
...Bradford added the administration also will penalize students who refuse to cross the picket lines to attend classes. He said the college will continue to fail students who miss three class meetings in a course...
...clearly a tactic to keep the students in class if we're fired," Bradford said. "The students have been publicly told to keep their heads down and do their work until all of this blows over," he added...
...faculty's primary complaint is not about money, Bradford said, but about job security--RISD offers no tenure. "All we have now is limited term contracts, after which a faculty member can be dismissed with no explanation whatsoever," he said...
This topsy-turvy theme of belief triumphing over death runs through all American literature, from Bradford to Hemingway. It is the American's consolation that if he fails with his vision, he can persist in his belief. Perhaps these tendencies sound old and no longer applicable. Well, in a sense the Jonestown tale was sketched out a century ago. Consider Moby Dick: Is not there some deep similarity between Jones and Ahab? Ahab, leading his crew in a suicidal pursuit, testing himself against all the supernatural forces; Jones, carrying his group with him in his strange quest. How did both...