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Because public television is blandly virtuous and soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
Hackney has other supporters. Among them is former rival and Brown University president Vartan Gregorian, who was passed over for the Penn presidency in favor of Hackney in 1980. Says he: "Sheldon Hackney has a judicious, moderate temperament -- and you need somebody who is an umpire" to run the NEH. Gregorian himself turned down the appointment...
Formed under the initiative of Brown PresidentVartan Gregorian, the Alliance's main goal is toraise the graduate school application pool ofminorities four-fold by the year...
After a fraternity party incident involving a handgun, Brown University police officials are asking Brown President Vartan Gregorian today to allow them to be deputized so they may carry firearms...
...relaxed, university administrators and staff members still perform an in loco parentis role. They are expected to provide counseling and supervision on everything from career and family planning to the dietary habits of vegetarians and anorexics. Indeed, such painstaking attention is paid to the personal needs of students that Gregorian likens running a U.S. college to presiding over a Greek city- state. "You have your security force, your dormitories, your food services, a judiciary to impose discipline, whether somebody harassed somebody, and so forth," he says. "I can't imagine the president of the Sorbonne being bothered with these things...