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...clamping down on the rising cost of a Radcliffe education. Moreover, the building plans are based on anachronistic evaluations of Radcliffe's role and the desires of its students. The new $7 million Currier House will relieve over-crowding in other dorms, but allowing more students to live off-campus would do the same thing. And the plans for coffee shops and renovated dorms show the same nostalgic attachment to the concept of small-college community that is increasingly out of touch with new demands for genuine coeducation...
Hayakawa, who is the third new president in 27 months, will need a profound understanding of behavior in particular if he is to deal effectively with the convulsed San Francisco campus. Students have been beaten, buildings occupied, fires started, and stink bombs thrown; plainclothes and uniformed police were everywhere. Even the faculty seemed hopelessly divided...
Last month Hayakawa angrily reported to a faculty meeting that "black students are again disrupting the campus." And he attacked teachers who condoned or defended the disruption. "There are many whites who do not apply to blacks the same standard of morality and behavior they apply to whites," he said. "This is an attitude of moral conde scension that every self-respecting Negro has a right to resent-and does resent." As a semanticist, Hayakawa said, he wished to comment on "the intellectually slovenly habit, now popular among whites as well as blacks, of denouncing as racist those who oppose...
...which Hayakawa himself was a member. Dr. Nathan Hare, the Negro coordinator of the college's black-studies program, promptly predicted: "Hayakawa will go out faster than Smith. He takes the hard line. We'll be ready for him." Militant students promised picketing and demonstrations if the campus is reopened; they even threatened to call strikes on some of the other campuses in the 18-college state system...
Spokesmen for the United States Army said yesterday that the decision of the University of Pennsylvania's undergraduate Colege of Arts and Sciences to withdraw academic credit from courses given by military science departments will not necessarily mean that ROTC will leave the Penn campus...