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This Scylla-and-Charybdis existence makes today's university president no more than a mechanistic functionary. All too frequently Dodds defines presidential success in terms of strengthening weak departments, meeting people and participating in civic affairs with a practical eye towards public relations, raising money to meet deficits, planning the budget, delegating the tedious tasks, hiring and firing diplomatically. Throughout The Academic President is a sense that the president's job is to remedy the bad spots, await the crises, and react to problems Even when the president plans the future, he does so as a device for making...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, said last night that "the University will consider the needs of the City in its plans for the married students housing project...
...Civic Exercise. The strikers began boycotting shops, and a Communist radio station in Prague beamed encouragement to them. Worried by the draining of some $200 million from the Spanish economy, Franco finally declared a state of emergency. To the three northern provinces of Asturias, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya, he rushed reinforcements of armed police and civil guard units, partially suspended the fuero (the Spanish bill of rights). Said one Spaniard: "The only time we ever hear about the fuero is when it's suspended...
...strike; ridiculing the official explanation that the unrest was fomented by the Communists, they declared: "Nothing is said of the real social situation that caused the strikes." Admitted one of the signers: "This won't have any effect. But it gives us a little exercise in civic duties." At the University of Madrid, student riots about the mounting influence in education of Opus Dei, a powerful Roman Catholic lay order, turned into sympathy demonstrations for the strikers...
...best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on a platform by tilting a giant gyroscope, make wave patterns in water tanks, and watch a 40,000-member ant colony go busily about its cutaway civic activities...