Word: hesburgh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students at Notre Dame, for example, went back to school in September spoiling for a fight: they had decided that the behavioral restrictions traditionally imposed on them were too demeaning to tolerate any longer. But over the summer, President Theodore Hesburgh blandly did away with the bulk of the rules. The resulting mood of Notre Dame-new responsibility, dampening of protest, search for a more influential and meaningful student role in college affairs-is typical of most schools, barring Harvard's aberrations...
...much of why Notre Dame is No. 1 in the nation today. If you want good football-so the truism goes-you have to get the players, regardless of their academic inadequacies. As the Fighting Irish return to football dominance, I wonder what is happening to the Rev. Hesburgh's drive for academic excellence...
Though Mayor Locher (rhymes with poker) announced last year that he saw "no impending furor" in his city, a U.S. Civil Rights Commission investigation there last April convinced at least one commissioner, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, that conditions in Hough were "the worst I have seen." After the commission urged city officials to show "a more positive attitude" toward Cleveland's Negroes, Mayor Locher's response was to appoint a committee to report on the commission's report...
...handle big tasks in a hurry, whether it be organizing foreign research stations in foreign countries, studying tropical agriculture for the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, advising NASA on moon exploration, or formulating a National Teachers Corps. "I've met with Frank Murphy so often," says Hesburgh, "I almost know what he's going to say before he says it. This group of presidents can get more done in an hour than other groups can in three weeks...
...Theodore Hesburgh, 48, Notre Dame. Freewheeling and decisive, he roams from Taiwan paddy fields to ice floes in Antarctica, retains an amazing grasp of detail of all he sees and hears, and considers his latest project, organizing an ecumenical study institute in Jerusalem, "a very big thing-but something you do before breakfast." He is a member of the National Science Board, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, consultant to the State Department. He spends 120 to 150 days a year off campus...