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...university and to prescribe cures for the institution's ills. To foment the crisis, Students for a Democratic Society had raised two issues: ROTC and university expansion. These were the specific topics of debate. Underlying these themes, though, was the larger question of how the university should be governed-and who should govern...
...educators feared that "if universities will not govern themselves they will be governed by others." The current wave of student unrest, unless solved by the schools, could lead to backlash legislation that would be harmful to the universities. Thus the Council urged its member institutions to carry on with curriculum reform and develop a more open pattern of governance, and to create realistic disciplinary codes in cooperation with students and faculty. Police action may sometimes be necessary, the report noted, but it is better that universities "deal with disruptive situations" before it becomes necessary to bring in the forces...
...providing leadership for the diffuse, sprawling metropolis that was described 30 years ago as "19 suburbs in search of a city"; today there are 64 suburbs, and they are still searching. Yorty has protested that the mayor's power is so limited he is scarcely able to govern...
Though so extensive a pullback was not expected, the fact that Canada was taking an entirely fresh look at the Atlantic alliance was no secret. Trudeau, who tends to govern his country almost as if he were conducting a leisurely seminar, has devoted his first year in office more to tossing problems to task forces for study than to providing any new directions for Canadian policies. None of Trudeau's task-force assignments have provoked livelier discussion at home, or greater misgivings abroad, than his question whether the time had come to bring home the troops...
...three-day student strike called yesterday by the assembly in Memorial Church is a vote of no confidence in the Administration's response to the demonstration and in the Corporation's ability to govern. It also provides a breathing spell for organizing a broadly-based coalition which could make a revolutionary change in the distribution of political power at Harvard...