Word: columbia
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Unrest on college campuses is due in large part to very rapid technological and social change, Andrew W. Cordier, acting president of Columbia University, said at a press conference yesterday afternoon...
Cordier was in Boston to moderate a symposium titled "Toward the Year 2000: Population Versus Progress," held at the Sheraton Plaza last night. Other members of the symposium, all from Columbia, were Margaret Mead, adjunct professor of Anthropology; Arthur S. Lall, adjunct professor of International Affairs; and Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology...
...College unrest demonstrates the need for responsive faculties who will engage in dialogue with students," Cordier said. "At Columbia," he added, "there are many such quiet negotiations, along with a policy of reconciliation...
...revelations about FCC that have appeared in the Washington Post and other local newspapers in the past two weeks have generated an enormous indignation in the student body, in the black community of the District of Columbia, and on Capitol Hill. This indignation has prompted the Board of Trustees to take a closer interest in the day-to-day operation of the college than heretofore, and their interest in turn could conceivably encourage the president and the provost to take back some of the authority they have surrendered to the faculty...
Part of the reason for the health plan's national ambitions may come from the backgrounds of the men who direct it. Before he came to Harvard, Pollack had served as professor of administrative medicine at Columbia and director of Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Hospital Costs in New York. In his years in New York, Pollack used to buy medi- cal service plans for three million people. By the time he came to Harvard in 1965, Pollack says he "came with a national outlook...