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...from rustic origins, it is Harvard University. Despite the continuing challenge from such superb schools as Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard, under its patrician president Derek Bok, remains the gauge against which others are measured. As the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame, puts it, Harvard is "the standard bearer and symbol of excellence...
...concern comes from people who favor continued immigration, but who fear the consequences if a slowdown in the economy were to heighten the sense that immigrants, especially illegal ones, take jobs away from Americans. "We could have a terrible backlash, a terrible period of repression," warns the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and chairman of the Select Commission on Immigration that was established by Congress in 1978. "People tend to forget that twice in our lifetime, this country has rounded up hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and pushed them back over the border.* That was a terrible thing...
...coup by young, reform-minded Salvadoran army officers. When the revolt was crushed, Duarte was hauled from his sanctuary in a Venezuelan diplomatic residence, held incommunicado and brutally beaten. His cheekbones still bear indentations from that torture. Telegrams from Pope Paul VI, Richard Nixon and Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh brought about his release; Duarte spent the next seven years in exile in Venezuela...
...approach that other cities might heed, is largely due to the work of the Jerusalem Committee, initiated in 1968 by Mayor Kollek. The group is made up of some 100 architects, urbanists, historians and theologians from 25 countries; its members include Mumford, Architect Philip Johnson, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame, former CBS Chairman William S. Paley and German Educator Hellmut Becker. Asking the committee's advice is Kollek's way of saying that Jerusalem belongs not only to Jews but to world civilization. Said the mayor to the committee after the first...
This is a hot week on the Harvard Lecture circuit--that is if you're interested in nuclear weapons, immigration or the Caribbean. Heading the ticket at the Forum at the Institute of Politics is Notre Dame President and general academic big-wig the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, speaking on "Science, Religion, and the Nuclear Menace" also at the K-School tonight in an adjoining room is Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), one of the chief proponents of immigration reform in recent years, speaking on, you guessed it. "The Politics of Immigration Reform"....another big-shot coming to Harvard this week...