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...ultimate effect of the artificial housing system, a serious lack of communication between students and faculty, disturbed the committee greatly. Henry Kucera, a Brown professor deeply involved with the present housing controversy, told me that "because of the autonomous nature of the fraternities, a resident fellow system cannot work effectively at Brown." (Resident fellows are faculty members roughly equivalent to Harvard tutors.) A few resident fellows live in the independent dorms, but fewer still eat with the students, and the entire system hardly begins to approximate the Harvard student-tutor relationship...
Meanwhile, moderator Henry Kucera, assistant professor of Russian, got in a plug for the faculty-sponsored "Discussions '59," of which this was an unintended enlargement. Originally, the meeting was to be an informal lounge chat. When it became a public forum, John J. McLaughry, appointed head football coach only weeks ago, decided that the issue had lost its original humor and announced that he would be out of town tonight...
...Washington and opened negotiations with the U. S. debt commission, for the funding of Czechoslovakia's reconstruction debt of $117,000,000 to the U. S. Dr. Wilem Pospisil, Director of the Savings Bank of Prague, heads the foreign negotiators. The rest of the commission consists of Karel Kucera, Karel Barbenec, Dr. Eugene Lippansky, Zikmund Konecny and the new Czech minister to the U. S., Colonel Fierlinger...