Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadcasting Commission's Donald Simmons plans to stay "as long as I don't get knocked off. Why give up the best news story in the world in favor of pushing a pen behind a desk?" Malcolm Browne, formerly of the Associated Press, has been awarded a fellowship and will leave soon, after five years in Viet Nam. "I have the horrible, sinking feeling," he says, "that I may never be able to come back...
Another realist of sorts also opened last week to grunts of approval in Rome's Gallerie La Salita. He is Richard Serra, 27, whose credentials include a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale and a Fulbright fellowship; he is currently deep in his zoo period. On exhibit were crude cages in which disport two turtles, two quail, a rabbit, a hen, two guinea pigs and a 97-lb. sow. The big pig oinks away as part of a work called Live Pig Cage I. "I'm not saying the pig is art or is not art," says...
With the financial support of the Committee, students formed the Latin American Association. Weekly dinners and seminars have featured speakers from within and outside the University. A Latin American Summer Fellowship program for students writing senor theses has been instituted. In the field of History and Literature, Professor Juan Marichal has established a new program in "Spanish American Civilization...
...probably "idle" for the next few years. The Ford and Holland Grants expire within the next year and prospects for renewal are negligible. Two key men in the area for the last two years, Helio Jaguaribe and assistant professor of History Thomas Skidmore, are leaving. The Latin American Summer Fellowship program is funded on a yearly basis. The plans for the proposed Latin American Research Center are at best uncertain...
Finally, on the student level, the Latin American Summer Fellowship program should be put on a permanent basis. The Latin American Chronicle should be published more regularly. The creation of the center and the expansion of the faculty will eventually improve the number and the nature of the courses offered. A center which attracts visiting scholars has a definite feedback effect on the courses given. The junior faculty members and graduate students studying at the center will improve the tutorial programs in the various disciplines in the field...