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...starting to search for a successor. As Galbraith says, "given the age of its members and the comparative absence of scientific and scholarly qualification, there is no reason to believe that in the future it will make a choice that is approved by, even acceptable to, the Faculty." Grayson Kirk's downfall showed the folly of turning into a University President a man who is the darling of the corporate managers but enjoys no sympathy with the mass of the Faculty. It could happen here...
Meantime, assorted student protests roiled Belgium, Britain, Egypt, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain and West Germany. Out went the U.S. tradition of universities policing adolescents in loco parentis. At Columbia, student rebels captured the campus, destroyed a tottering adult empire (last week President Grayson Kirk resigned), and inspired more demonstrations in France, where once-passive students turned anarchist and incited a nationwide general strike that nearly toppled
...possible that my retirement at this time might help to ensure the prospect of more normal university operations during the coming academic year." It was not only possible but probable that Grayson Kirk was indulging in understatement when he announced his retirement last week after 15 years as president of Columbia University. For as the start of the new term neared, Kirk's defenders and detractors alike agreed that if he remained on the job, his very presence would provide an excuse for continued controversy on the restless campus...
Remote Powers. Despite the need to ease tension on the campus, the administration of President Grayson Kirk has concentrated on defining new procedures for handling discipline and demonstrations. Kirk has also called in a major Manhattan public relations agency to advise the university-a move that smacks more of image building than real change. His only concrete concession to reform so far has been the appointment of Associate English Professor Carl F. Hovde as new Dean of Columbia College. Hovde is an admirer of student activists and welcomes the fact that the spring rebellion shook the place up. Most students...
...does not have to mean ideological rigidity. All commitment is doing. It is existential, as Simon James (a pseudonym for a Columbia demonstrator) shows in a feature that appeared last month in the CRIMSON and NEW YORK magazine. He writes down his thoughts as he sits-in at President Grayson Kirk's office...