Word: columbia
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Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1952. Bell spent several years as a journalist. He has been managing editor of the New Leader and Common Sense and worked for ten years as labor editor for Fortune Magazine...
...another recent faculty appointment, Daniel Bell, chairman of the Columbia Sociology department since 1958 and noted for his studies of public policy and higher education, has accepted the post of professor of Sociology at Harvard beginning July...
What makes an injunction effective? A few clues are provided by the recent evacuation of two Columbia buildings by the most radical wing of the S.D.S. A leader of the demonstrators reports that when a judge issued arrest warrants against the students under the injunction, they were seized with "a general sense of panic." They feared that defying the court could result in police records that might plague them for the rest of their lives. Most of the students hastily withdrew, shielding their faces from photographers...
Symbol of Order. Many school administrators and faculty members concede that the injunction alone will not solve unrest on the campus. "I don't believe that a writ is a magic talisman that will ward off all devils," says Columbia Historian Walter Metzger, a specialist on academic freedom. "There has got to be some imagination and a very sophisticated armory of responses, including negotiation and dialogue." Law Professor Gerald Gunther of Stanford argues that it is better to bring the courts into campus confrontations than to summon police in the first instance. "I believe that there may be greater...
Pusey's testimony was discouraging for liberals hoping to head off repressive legislation. He and other administrators who testified were unable to promise anything better than a hope that they will be able to deal with future disorders. Jacques Barzun of Columbia actually told the subcommittee: "Colleges have shown that they can't deal with the crisis...