Word: freedman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freedman will succeed current president David T. McLaughlin, whose five-year tenure at Dartmouth has been marked by friction over student activism and faculty relations, campus observers have said...
Iowa's president since 1982, Freedman has received praise for his activities backing new and innovative educational programs, said Carol A. Monaghan, a staff reporter on the student newspaper The Daily Iowan...
...Freedman will preside over a campus that in recent years has been divided by the issues of South African divestment and ROTC on campus. He said in a speech last week that campuses should have controversy and debate, but that debate should be "conducted in a climate of civility...
During his presidency in Iowa City, Freedman did not get involved with pro-divestment and anti-CIA student protests on campus, Monaghan said. "The students felt he didn't take a stand on the issue of divestment on any active level," Monaghan said...
...Freedman told the Globe last Monday that although the University of Iowa has divested its holdings, he personally has not come out in favor of total divestment...