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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last season was pretty much a lost cause for Miller after he led the team in rushing as a sophomore. Nagging injuries kept him out of action for most of the year, but the problems that plagued him last season seem to have gone...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Coach Restic Searches for a Quarterback | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...result, Harwell said, could be painful for some students. "If students formerly made up a part of what should have been their parents' contribution with their own money, and were on a federally funded program other than work-study, under the old rules they would have kept as much as they earned. Now, we have to limit their earnings, and help them find alternative ways of financing their education...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: Financial Aid Faces a New Snag | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Instead the process is kept "collegial." When a search committee is interested in a professor, it begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse to find out if he's "moveable." They make discreet inquiries to some of his friends or approach him informally...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Tenure: Notes on Becoming a Baron(ess) | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Kearns has taken the year off to finish the book and iron out her personal problems. (It is her second leave in three years.) She is on probation now. If she had kept her name out of the newspapers and waited several months before announcing a change of plans, she would have been beyond the reach of the department. Instead she was caught in the twilight area between the time the department votes tenure and the administration and the Corporation approve it. The impetus for the May reconsideration reportedly came from the administration, and it is between the dean...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Tenure: Notes on Becoming a Baron(ess) | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...Justice department for his role as a middleman in the deal to make Mrs. Ruth Farkas ambassador to Luxembourg in return for a six figure contribution to the Committee to Relect the President in 1972. Wyman, who has virtually acknowledged the legitimacy of the charges, has been kept very much on the defensive on this issue, claiming simply, "I don't believe I broke any laws." But polls indicate that New Hampshire voters, who never regarded Watergate as too big a deal and who still feel that Nixon was driven out of office by a vindictive Congress...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Why Wyman Will Win | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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