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Doesn't anyone want to be president of Columbia University? The job has been wide open ever since Grayson Kirk resigned after the convulsive student uprising 14 months ago. Informal overtures by Columbia's trustees have since been rebuffed by John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Martin Meyerson, president of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Hopes recently rose when the trustees formally offered the post to Alexander Heard, 52, the able chancellor of Vanderbilt University (TIME, Aug. 1). But last week Heard too bowed out. "At this juncture," he wrote...
Kunen's reporting is no mere recital of grievances. His eye catches the wry side of things-including himself. "April 25. I get up and shave with [Columbia President] Grayson Kirk's razor, use his toothpaste, splash on his aftershave, grooving on it all. I need something morale-building like this, because my revolutionary fervor takes about half an hour longer than the rest of me to wake up." Arrested and riding to jail surrounded by deadly earnest radicals, Kunen busies himself trying "to work a cigarette butt through the window grate so that I can litter from...
...left the meeting with somewhat the same feeling I had after listening to Columbia President Grayson Kirk when I covered the Columbia rebellion last spring. An administrator who is so far out of contact with his constituency has little recourse but to force in a confrontation. For there is little common ground on which to base negotiations. President Pusey's testimony on ROTC before SFAC represents the type of rigidity which breeds confrontation...
...weeks before the student outbreaks of April 23-30 that disrupted the work of Columbia University. I have since found no reason to change or add to what I had written months earlier." Since the book was written in "a feeling of communion. . . with the chief officers of Grayson Kirk's administration," it might be looked on as a document of that crisis. If its hostility toward undergraduates reflected the attitudes of the administration, then the gulf of misunderstanding was wide indeed. One can suggest, though, that Grayson Kirk and the Deans took a milder view of the commotion than...
...motion, reminiscent in its face-saving ingenuity of the diplomatic maneuver used to free the Pueblo crew. But whether the Faculty actually overturned the Ad Board or merely amended its recommendation with an innovation the board could not have proposed itself is beside the point, College administrators (like Grayson Kirk) forced to handle student discipline by themselves are in a hopeless bind because they do not have the authority to make their decisions stick. Here the Faculty has the final power to fix punishments and yesterday its members rightly decided by a two to one margin that the Administration formula...