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...build branches, determine expansion priorities, pick new presidents. When professors take unpopular stands or students protest, the regents are often squeezed between an angry public and a defensive university administration. One of the toughest tasks of regents today, says Florida Regent Wayne McCall, is to act as "a buffer between the academic world and the outside...
...there is also a much more positive side to police-student relations. The force serves as an effective buffer between students and the Cambridge police, who have the authority to enter the University but "out of courtesy" leave Harvard to the University Police. Cambridge authorities will often hand drunken students wandering in the Square to the University cops, rather than let them spend the night in jail. And with University Police handling student demonstrations, students get much more flexible supervision than the Cambridge police would provide...
...ASPAU has arranged through the Experiment in International Living for a month's "homestay" with an American family--usually about 100 miles from the college they will attend--before actual registration. The homestay is designed to help the student get his bearings on American society and serve as a buffer against the reactions of Americans to a black foreigner...
...stop-and-frisk law" that would allow police to search suspicious persons. Then, too, there was Viet Nam. Though Cavanagh vaguely supported the Johnson Administration's policies, an image of the dove fluttered above him after he advocated a cease-fire and the creation of a buffer state between North and South. Williams, also generally supporting the President's policy, more firmly urged "a firm military defense and an imaginative peace effort...
When the 1954 Geneva Conference divided Viet Nam in two, it established a demilitarized buffer zone between the Communist North and anti-Communist South. The zone is six miles wide. It roughly follows the 17th parallel from the mountainous Laotian border in the west through thickly jungled foothills to the fertile paddies along the coast. For twelve years, it was the quietest place in all of Viet...