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With understandable relief and considerable pride, Pusey last week announced the results of his two most recent dean hunts. Succeeding Griswold at the Law School is Derek Curtis Bok, 37, son of a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, an authority on labor law and a member of the university's faculty since 1958. Co-author (with Harvard's Archibald Cox) of the classic textbook on labor law, Bok has had experience as a strike mediator and is well liked by his students, who consider him less frostily distant than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister...
...appointments reflect Pusey's current interest in relating Harvard's teaching more closely to contemporary social problems. Bok sees a need for the Law School to draw more heavily upon the skills of other departments within the university, then apply their combined knowledge to such issues as racial discrimination, aid to the poor and labor relations. Similarly, Stendahl feels that the Divinity School curriculum should reflect more of the church's concern with the eradication of social ills. By coincidence, Bok and Stendahl are good personal friends and have a common interest in things Swedish...
...tipped its hand on the issue of draft-card burning. David O'Brien burned his card on the steps of the South Boston courthouse in 1966. His subsequent card-burning conviction was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, which declared that the anti-card-burning law was an unconstitutional suppression of "symbolic speech." The Supreme Court agreed to take the case, and last week the justices heard oral arguments...
...Difference. The defense contended that the anti-card-burning law was passed in "hysteria" by Congress only to suppress dissent; that the law was unnecessary, since it is already illegal to be without the card; that the cards are unnecessary, since all the information is on file with the Government anyway; and that the act of burning is an act of dissent, and as such is protected under the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech...
Public feeling, too, has shifted. Gallup reports that more Americans now oppose capital punishment than favor it, and 13 states have abolished it in whole or part. In the light of such changes in the law and in the people, the situation last week of two of the nation's newest and youngest (17 and 16 years old) residents on death row focused new attention on the issue...