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Last August when Arthur J. Rosenthal left the security and lucre of his job as editor-in-chief of Basic Books, he knew he had a big job ahead of him. But few people who were familiar with the economic and administrative quagmire into which Harvard had allowed its Press to slide would have given even as sound an editor and businessman as Rosenthal much chance for pulling the operation out of its organizational muck by the time the next Commencement rolled around...
...University of California system forced out the management of the Daily Californian at Berkeley after the paper editorially endorsed a "re-opening" of People's Park in Berkeley (the re-opening turned into a small riot). After installing a new editor-in-chief, the university gave the paper a choice: accept a faculty advisor or move off campus. It was no choice: after an uphill fight, the paper became financially and editorially independent of the school...
...University of Florida when the paper violated a 10-year-old state statute forbidding publication of advertisements containing abortion information. The Florida attorney general then ruled the statute unconstitutional. The regents perservered, despite continued support of the paper by the attorney general, and imposed an administrative assistant as editor-in-chief. The staff, in a joint suit with Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalistic society, sued the regents...
...small-scale riot; at Texas, the regents--who had never been fond of The Daily Texan's antiwar editorials--tightened the purse-strings when the paper exposed a misappropriation of $600,000 by the regents; at Florida, The Daily Alligator found a regent appointee in the position of editor-in-chief after it ran the telephone number of an abortion referral service in violation of a 102-year-old state statute which has since been declared unconstitutional...
TIME is devoting much of the observance of its 50th anniversary to a study of Congress and its decline. Already TIME has held four regional meetings at which scholars, members of Congress and civic leaders discussed the problem and possible remedies. What is really at stake, explained Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan, is "whether a democratic society puts some value on collective wisdom as opposed to centralized individual wisdom, and whether the Congress can make a more constructive contribution to public policy...