Word: circumventions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Administration-ordered bust and the efforts of Pusey and Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty, to circumvent the decision brought the University to a halt. By April, when it reaffirmed its February decision, the Faculty had factionalized almost irreparably.
* Popular unrest in the U.S. threatens to undercut support for a powerful chief executive--the primary agent of the growing industrial super-giants in their efforts to circumvent New Deal government regulation.
The Administration-ordered bust and the efforts of Pusey and Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty, to circumvent the decision brought the University to a halt. By April, when it reaffirmed its February decision, the Faculty had factionalized almost irreparably.
Several groups charged that the Corporation had, in fact, overruled or attempted to circumvent the Faculty proposal to eliminate ROTC privileges at the University. They demanded that ROTC be abolished immediately. Amid protest, President Pusey and other Ivy League presidents tried ardently to negotiate new contracts with the Defense Department...
By April, liberal Faculty and students were attacking Pusey and Ford for attempting to circumvent the clear intention of the Faculty's original resolution. It was not the Faculty's position, but the degree of cooperation by the Corporation that changed as pressure mounted from February to April.