Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lyndon Johnson ran the Senate. Even in the House of Representatives, where the dying seniority system once brought an excessive stability, only two committee chairmen will have held their positions for more than six years, and seven committees are likely to select new chairmen...
...rural area around Gettysburg, Incumbent Democrat Kenneth Cole and Republican Donald Moul, director of the National Trotting and Pacing Association, each got exactly 8,551 votes. The tie made it impossible to settle such crucial matters as control of the speaker's job and the appointment of committee chairmen. Should the tie hold after a recount, the candidates will settle the contest by drawing lots from a paper bag. Complained Cole's wife: "People in a democracy are entitled to more than a poker game...
Mitten suggests the possibility of setting up different tenure tracks, one for teaching and one for research. Perkins also favors altering the tenure process slightly to allow department chairmen to vote on the ad hoc committee instead of furnishing the committee with a written position paper and appearing for testimony. In this way, the chairmen would be able to prompt consideration of some of the younger talent...
Rosovsky implemented one of the task force's suggestions when he sent a letter to department chairmen in November 1976, instructing them to include evaluations of teaching abilities in all recommendations for tenured positions...
...House committees and the Student Assembly may reconsider the boycott issue if the Faculty accepts the reforms, chairmen of the groups said...