Word: interests
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FACULTY MEMBERS used to lead a greater percentage of tutorials. Now they can't; there are too many undergraduate concentrators. Also, owing considerably to the new interest of government and business in their professions, many faculty members are chiefly interested in the development of their specialized disciplines within social science. They see themselves as scientists, not teachers...
Neither the undergraduates nor the graduates have begun to organize concerning the possible split. Probably, if they do, they will at first adamantly oppose it. But again, there are many matters to consider. Dean May has indicated an interest in curricular and general educational reform: there may soon be talk about a General Studies major. A split in the Soc Rel Department, possibly "freeing" many undergraduates, could no doubt add considerable impetus to the establishment of such a program. But at the same time, because it would separate finally the interests of faculty and students, a Soc Rel split could...
Labor and civil rights organizations initially opposed Haynsworth for his conservative decisions in the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals, but later, allegations of conflicts of interest and ethical improprieties provoked extensive controversy in Senate committee hearings...
Haynswbrth's defeat is a major blow to Mitchell's prestige, since he recommended the southern judge to Nixon without fully investigating the cases that later led to charges of conflicts of interest...
...take a drubbing, and they have started to organize and protest; but even at the fire-sale price, Storer will get out with a profit. It has put $35 million into Northeast, and will receive Northwest stock currently worth around $38 million, plus a Northwest promise to repay with interest a $10 million Storer loan to Northeast...