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...Faculty motion which created the Committee charged it with "full responsibility" for the disciplining of the students involved. The Faculty, however, will have to approve by a two-third vote any recommendation to dismiss or expel a student...
Fortas really had little choice: he had either to resign or to face almost certain impeachment by the House of Representatives. Though he attempted to dismiss his financial dealings with the Wolfson Family Foundation as routine and blameless, the pressure from both Congress and the Nixon Administration became severe and finally intolerable. Fortas decided to resign, he said, as soon as he realized that the furor surrounding him-and the court-could not otherwise subside. "Hell," he said piously, "I feel there wasn't any choice for a man of conscience...
Then the Corporation--which has ultimate power to discipline or dismiss its appointees--"will presumably set up another committee," Price said...
...member of the faculty. The two Texans have scrupulously avoided public battles, but their subordinates have been less inhibited. Those loyal to DeBakey, for example, have fostered the impression that Cooley has performed some of his 20 heart transplants prematurely. Cooley's lieutenants, on the other hand, dismiss this as professional jealousy; they point out that Cooley performed his first transplant three months before DeBakey did. DeBakey's associates also expressed concern about the purely experimental status of artificial hearts. The Baylor heart was reportedly tested in calves at least four times. The animals died on the operating...
Your irrationality makes me wonder how you were ever admitted into Columbia. You confuse rhetoric with reasoning. Assertions are not facts. Passion is no substitute for knowledge. Slogans are not solutions. Your idealism takes no brains. And when you dismiss our differences with contempt, you become contemptible. Very sincerely yours, LEO ROSTEN...