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...Toward Ferment. Whether Missouri now moves into the top rank of public universities will depend largely on John Carrier Weaver, 50, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculties at Ohio State, who will succeed Ellis next August. Son of a former speech department chairman at the University of Wisconsin, Weaver holds a Ph.D. in geography from Wisconsin and has spent most of his career in Midwestern public universities, including Minnesota, Kansas State, Nebraska and Iowa. These schools, he insists, represent "the full flowering of the public land-grant concept-education, research and service combined...
...university's prime reason for being" and that "what really matters in higher education is individual young people and their individual minds." A teacher's aim, he argues, is "to produce disquiet, make students question dogma. Good education doesn't produce stability. It should produce ferment." Under Weaver, the lowly undergrad is not likely to be forgotten, and the ferment is already going...
...engineer the following." And he never stopped making changes. Only three months ago he cut the front page from eight to five columns and put in more white space for easier reading. "This newspaper does not stand still," he said. "It's in a continual state of ferment...
...have to ferment all the faster these days, now that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is closing the circulation gap-370,499 for the Plain Dealer to 370,759 for the Press. As a morning paper, the Plain Dealer has a built-in advantage over the afternoon Press with its tougher distribution problems. And on top of that, the Plain Dealer has been picking up spark from Publisher Tom Vail, 39, who is running some stinging and effective exposes and crisp editorials. Vail has hired 33 new editorial staffers in the past year alone...
James Nelson Goodsell, Latin American Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, will speak on "Latin America: Hemisphere in Ferment" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland JCR. The speech is sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council