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More specialized ventures recognized by the A.I.A. were the conversion of a lecture hall into gallery space and construction of an underground auditorium by Herbert S. Newman Associates at Yale's Center for American Arts, and the creation of a striking office complex within a four-story 1896 bank building in Princeton, N.J. Interestingly, Michael Graves, 44, who was responsible for the design, achieved prominence in the early 1970s as a leader of a highly theoretical group of architects specializing in abstract form. Graves has since redesigned some two dozen old buildings, and is currently converting a 1906 railway...
...Afro-American Studies Department is no stranger to controversy. The department grew out of the turbulent events of 1969, when black students called for its creation as one of the demands of the Harvard strike. While members of Afro, the student association of Harvard blacks, waited in the lobby of the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty hotly debated whether the concentration in Afro-American Studies should be a full department or an interdisciplinary committee. Although the Faculty voted at that tense meeting to make Af-Am a department, that debate continues today. Over the past ten years, the University...
...when it happens, many will interpret the creation of a Department of Education as a victory for President Carter. "Education is something that has been relegated to a secondary position in the past," Carter said in 1976 while hot on the campaign trail. Since the campaign, Carter has pushed hard for a separate Department of Education within his overall plan to reorganize the federal government. In November 1977, his special study team presented him with three options for redefining the position of education in the federal machinery: (1) the creation of a separate Department of Education; (2) the creation...
...grind, argue that a new Cabinet level department would simply add more fatty tissue to the federal blob. Some, like Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.). believe that funding lies at the heart of the system's problem and that "increased appropriations are not dependent upon the creation of a new department." Individuals like Rosenthal and organizations like the United States Catholic Conference--a major lobby for private school interests--argue that the legislation's proponents must prove a demonstrable need for a new department. Destruction of HEW, they predict, would fracture a delicate but workable coalition of federal...
...meanwhile, says that most important matters he can get the "understanding and sympathy" of the secretary of HEW. Rosenthal comments, "'Visibility' and 'status' are undefined catch phrases which hardly justify creation of a cabinet level department of education...