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...remained for a seemingly minor incident in Jerusalem to illuminate the quality about Eichmann that Historian Hannah Arendt has characterized "the banality of evil." One day after a court session, Eichmann was shown a film: here were Jewish victims packed like cattle into trains; here were Nazi execution squads shooting down rows of naked men, women and children, who fell writhing into trenches that they themselves had dug; here were literally thousands of corpses being bulldozed into mass graves. Suddenly, in the darkened room, Prosecutor Hausner heard Eichmann stir. Hausner wondered if the ice-cold technician of the final solution...
...University of Rochester, said that he did not "question the patriotism of the protesters," but when a protester uses "the forum of a university to proclaim that he welcomes victory for the enemy in a shooting war, he crosses the line between liberty and license." Michigan State President John Hannah argued at the University of Maryland that "because we agree that each man is entitled to his own opinion does not mean that every man's opinion is worth as much as that of any other person." Hannah deplored "the arrogant assumption on the part of a few students...
...routine thing for Hannah-when not chairing the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights-to field questions from Civil Service Commission Chairman John Macy about a prospective appointee to a high federal job. Atlanta University's Rufus Clement keeps a card file near his desk on every U.S. Negro that he considers worthy of a high position in Government and education, for queries from Washington...
Their universities alone do not determine membership. "Michigan State is by nobody's standard one of the great universities," argues one of these presidents, "yet John Hannah has had as much influence on the role of the American university overseas as anyone." Harvard's Nathan Pusey, on the other hand, sits on many boards; yet, as one Washington education official puts it, "he has never really been an activist." California's Clark Kerr, once one of the most influential presidents, has turned more of his attention to his own school since the Berkeley crises of last year...
...John Hannah, 63, Michigan State. An outgoing activist and a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, he claims that he can tap his campus specialists, get an answer to most any question for Government or research groups "within 30 minutes." He serves on the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity and seven other policymaking committees. He holds neither a master's nor a doctor's degree, yet has headed Michigan State for 24 years...