Word: finches
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...EDUCATION. On the most controversial topic affecting his office, campus disorders, Finch has ignored Nixon's campaign rhetoric. Though the Government can take punitive action, cutting off federal funds from colleges affected by disruption and from student dissenters themselves, Finch argues that the universities should be given the widest possible latitude. Repressive federal action, he says, would endanger academic freedom and harm the vast majority of students who have never even thought of joining the S.D.S. He has campaigned energetically against half a dozen repressive bills pending in Congress. "In all truth," he told a congressional committee, "many academic institutions...
Many Southerners voted for Richard Nixon primarily because they thought that he would reverse or at least slow down the process of school desegregation. While Finch treated the matter delicately at first, and with galling ambiguity, his commitment to integration was never really in doubt. His position is now clear enough, and Southerners who expected a change are disappointed...
...education, as in many other areas, Finch usually eludes the conservative or liberal label. Sometimes he sounds almost like Paul Goodman, the iconoclastic critic (Growing Up Absurd) of higher education. "I want to challenge our educational institutions in a catalytic way," he says. "They are operating essentially the same way they operated 100 years ago. I want to shake them up." One of the most important alterations he made in the Johnson budget was to add $25 million for experimental education, enough to fund 15 to 20 projects. "The name of the game is learning, not teaching," says Ed Meade...
...later school years, Finch favors faster and more comprehensive development of two-year community colleges, principally because they offer alternatives to the traditional four-year academic course. The Government, Finch believes, should work far harder to give its citizens wider choices, in education and every other field. "American education," he told a congressional committee, "has become a single mechanism, its professors and students interchangeable parts. Under these circumstances, even student riots are monotonously, repellently alike...
...HEALTH. Finch wants to hold down medical costs by, among other things, making sure that Medicaid payments are no higher than those for Blue Shield. Indicative of his concern is his choice of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, to be Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. A proponent of such cost-saving schemes as group medical practice, Knowles has aroused the heated opposition of the ultraconservative American Medical Association and its Senate ally, Everett Dirksen. The G.O.P. minority leader says that he will block the nomination if it is sent to the Senate. Finch will...