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Died. Dr. Lewis Dahl, 60, chief of staff of the Hospital of the Medical Research Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory; of cancer; in Upton, N.Y. Dahl's pioneering experiments, dating back to the late 1940s, revealed the link between hypertension and the quantity of salt in the diet...
Initially the Princeton report was greeted with an even more devastating response than the Dahl report at Yale. Delivering his own preliminary report in 1971, recommending radical changes in the structure of the college including a three-year B.A., Bressler was shot down by both student and faculty opposition before a vote could be taken. "It lost totally, there was no sentiment for it," Bressler says about the original report...
...Dahl is perhaps the most pessimistic about the outcome of reviews of undergraduate education. "In times of crisis," he warns, the crisis "may carry the program away. You may get turned into something as a consequence of the immediate. To some extent we were victims of crisis, which at the time turned out to be financial crisis, which deflected attention of the faculty away from long-term proposals...
...Dahl says that a report on undergraduate education need a mix of philosophical elements and more procedural ones, but that in the end a faculty is moved by concrete, substantive recommendation. As for Rosovsky's task force scheme, Dahl says he sees advantages and disadvantages in it. On one hand, with seven task forces each topic will be taken up with a great deal of care - but at the same time there may be a "lack of a general overview of what the college could be doing" that stems from the study's diffusion...
...Basic structural or substantive changes are always difficult," Dahl warns, and because university faculties are by nature conservative, recommendations for broad change are usually doomed to failure. In the long run, a report here that is similar to the Yale committee's will probably lead to disappointment for its authors, Dahl says - a disappointment that is natural when you put in several years' work on a broad educational review that ends of gathering dust instead of momentum for change...