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...appointments during the summer of Francis M. Pipkin and Bruce Collier to administrative posts in University Hall, along with other direct hires in high places, prompted Leonard to write an angry memo to the Council of Deans warning against direct hires. Rosovsky defends his failure to list the hires with Personnel by saying that Pipkin was a Faculty appointment and Collier had experience that made him perfect for his new job administering housing, but this kind of justification can be made for any promotion from within. The problem, of course, is that there are very few blacks or women...
Died. William Ludlow Chenery, 90, editor, then publisher of the late Collier's weekly from 1925 to 1950; in Monterey, Calif. A learned, liberal Virginia-born newspaperman, Chenery led the ailing Collier's to a notable comeback by taking vigorous editorial positions (the magazine was an early champion of Repeal) and recruiting big-name writers-H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, Zane Grey-at top dollar; in 1939 he signed F.D.R. to a $75,000-a-year contract for regular contributions...
...Bruce Collier, the computer programmer for the Housing Office charged with implementing the new assignment system, assured freshmen there would be no "gimmicks." House assignments would be made solely on the basis of personal preference, except when these conflicted with the sex quotas. Freshmen were skeptical, but the results proved their fears unfounded...
...Collier also put forward a utilitarian plan for spreading overcrowding evenly throughout the houses. He said his program was designed to minimize the "pain factor" and "equalize" the discomfort. Jeremy Bentham would have been proud...
Responsibility for the Houses had been a Faculty matter separate from the College administration until Collier's appointment. Whitlock said the shift in responsibility for the Houses came because his office has dealt increasingly in recent years with House affairs