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UNIQUE AS her position may seem, Shklar by no means allows herself to be cut off from American society. Although she refuses to discuss her politics in the classroom, she humorously attests to being a "standard Democrat: F.D.R. was-our-last-real-president, and all that." Over the years students have grown to marvel at her intellectual prowess and to respect her academic demands, but when it came to political actions mutual misunderstanding has resulted. Looking back of Shklar's attitude towards the strike and general unrest on campus during the past several years, a student explains that "she thought...
...Graduate Students and Teaching Fellows Union--after shutting down classroom activity yesterday with a work stoppage--voted last night to establish a Union Commission to investigate recent University policies...
Charles W. Burnham, professor of Mineralogy and Committee chairman, said yesterday that the CRR met Saturday to discuss the charges against the two students, who were among a group that on March 6 followed Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, from his classroom in Allston Burr Hall to his office in William James Hall. The group shouted questions at Herrnstein, asking him to discuss the implications of his article on I.Q. that appeared in the September issue of the Atlantic Monthly...
...policies announced by the administration. Graduate students and undergraduates are not two separate and unrelated groups, but are very closely connected in the educational process. For, in their function as teaching fellows, graduate students perform the bulk of the real teaching done within the university both in the classroom and in the Houses...
York's love affair with the theater grew during his years at Oxford. "I read English at Oxford -- Tolkien's son was my tutor, actually. But you have to understand the English tutorial system at the universities to realize that I didn't spend much time in the classroom. I spent absolutely all my time acting." He belonged to the Oxford University Drama Society, the university's theater company that produces Shakespearean and classical drama. But he didn't confine himself to tradition, and joined the Experimental Theatre Company at Oxford as well. "Theater was my hole life at Oxford...