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...appalling that university administrators who defend free speech and open-mindedness to the hilt can so readily employ a double standard when student editors do something which they do not like. The University of California system ran The Daily California at Berkeley off campus for a single editorial it published in 1970; the University of Texas regents went after, and got, tighter control over The Daily Texan in 1971 after the paper uncovered $500,000 in funds misappropriated by the regents; last year. Boston College banned The B.C. Heights from its campus on general principle, but also because the paper...
...appalling that university administrator's who defend free speech and open-mindedness to the hilt can so readily employ a double standard when student editors do something which they do not like. The University of California system ran The Daily California at Berkeley off campus for a single editorial it published in 1970; the University of Texas regents went after, and got tighter control over The Daily Texan in 1971 after the paper uncovered $500,000 in funds misappropriate by the regents: last year, Boston College banned The B.C. Heights from its campus on general principle, but also because...
...cynical view of making it in U.S. business holds that success depends "not on what you know but on whom you know." According to an exclusive story broken last week by the Wall Street Journal, a West Coast operator named Jack P. Burke played that formula to the hilt. Burke's longtime friendship with Otis Chandler, his teammate on the Stanford University track squad (class of '50) and the crown prince of one of California's reigning families, had a good deal to do with his highflying fortunes in the oil business. Burke not only got Chandler...
...instinctive knack for sizing up property. "It's something that can never be taught," he says. He charged modest prices for hotel rooms, counting on high occupancy rates to turn a profit. As he puts it: "I just don't believe in charging up to the hilt." Today he controls a hotel, restaurant, food, beer and gambling network that spreads into France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Monaco and to New York (the Royal Manhattan Hotel on Eighth Avenue). Last year, on revenues of $818 million, his Grand Metropolitan Ltd. earned $33 million net, up 62% from the previous...
Playing the Festival theme of cooperation between the arts to the hilt. "Invalid" will share its set with another mainstage extravaganza, Mozart and DaPonte's "Don Giovanni," performed by the Leverett House Opera Society. Jon Miller designed the set that will be used for both shows. His main concept of the design is that "both works spring from the Renaissance, even though they date from a good deal later, and I wanted to give that feeling. The Moliere has to be something light, with lots of doors and tricks, 'Giovanni' should be something quite different...