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Thursday, March 9: Recital: Sandra Stuart, soprano, and Gordon Pruett, barione, sing works of Monteverdi and Bach, 12:10 p.m., MIT Chapel, free...
...western Massachusetts, the faculty name plates on office doors read like an academic version of All in the Family. In the science building alone, for example, one door is labeled BEV AND FRED HARTLINE, GEOPHYSICS, another AL AND ANN WOODHULL, BIOLOGY, and, down the hall, KURTISS AND COURTNEY GORDON, ASTRONOMY...
Shared appointments have their drawbacks for the couples. Tenure becomes a mid-career crisis; most colleges refuse to split a tenured post, so each partner must be considered separately. Professional jealousy can erupt between the sharers. Says Courtney Gordon: "You have to be noncompetitive in terms of your job?and have a very strong marriage." Another problem: it is virtually impossible to leave the office behind. The Grubers, for example, agreed initially that there would be no shop talk at meals. But after "a number of silent dinners," they gave in, and have never regretted it. Indeed, says Marjorie Woods...
...Gordon Kahn, one of the organizers of Students for the Preservation of an Acceptable Campus Environment, said the protest succeeded because activists were "able to get together an organization of every major student group on campus...
...area of questioning, but we should seriously wonder whether they will bear in mind the statement made by Gil Scutti upon his January 21 resignation as the chief of Marston's criminal division immediately following Marston's removal. Evoking the "stay away" advice given by Nixon White House aide Gordon Strachan before the Senate Watergate Committee five years ago, Scutti said, "I'm forced to leave the job I love because there is no justice in the Department of Justice...