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...decision on participation in the NIT was made in response to a request by Columbia president Andrew Cordier that the traditional post-season tournament restriction be repealed. The presidents of four colleges-Columbia. Pennsylvania. Princeton, and Cornell-voted to lift the post-season tournament ban, but a unanimous decision was needed...
...full of champagne last week. Breslow was toasting the fact that after a frustrating 18-month search, Columbia had finally found a permanent successor to Grayson Kirk, who resigned the presidency in 1968 following violent campus disorders. The man who has agreed to take over from Interim President Andrew Cordier next fall: William J. McGill, 47, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego...
...left behind a faculty factioned between traditional and innovative journalism. When a largely conservative search committee proposed Abel for the deanship last June, rebellious professors overwhelmingly voted it down, citing "lack of consultation" and "undue haste in appointing a man we know little about." But Columbia President Andrew Cordier, prodded by the traditionalists, overrode the faculty and went ahead with the appointment...
...gaudy conglomerations out of the found objects that he squirrels away against the day when he may need them. By now he has accumulated hundreds of hat blocks at his East Hampton studio, has used scores in his sculptures. Blocks have also long fascinated Arne Ekstrom, director of the Cordier & Ekstrom gallery. When he got the notion of supplying various artists with a block of their choice to see what they could produce, he asked to use Ossorio's collection as a source of supply...
...including its highest official, are not speaking for oneself. This role being vigorously denied to the elected leaders of the nation, how much more so will it, then, to gathered colleagues who are simply registering their opinions without the slightest pretensions of speaking for anyone else. (Note that President Cordier of Columbia, whose University Senate just passed such an anti-war resolution as is being pro posed to the Harvard faculty-at Columbia a student-faculty-administration Senate takes care of such matters-noted categorically that the resolution "does not speak for the University." NY Times...