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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started innocently enough. Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, wrote a letter to Corey B. Stone '79, a resident of Lowell House who had been corresponding with Calkins about a boycott of Nestle Corporation products. Calkins said that Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, told him the University would not boycott any corporate product...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Who's In Charge Around Here? | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...matter wasn't all that simple. In December, several administrators, including Dean Fox and Dean Rosovsky, created a student-faculty committee whose charge is to develop a University policy on boycotts. Yet despite Calkins' definitive statement of policy in his letter to Stone, the co-ordinator of the committee, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said the group was nowhere near any decision...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Who's In Charge Around Here? | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...wonder what Dirty Harry will do now that he'd tossed his badge after Scorpio face down outside a potash mine. We'll believe circles that don't meet end to end. In the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT they can't figure out why we recognize a letter in almost anyone's handwriting, or why we abstract a smile-face as a face at all. Nobody knows why we believe animation.Kathy Rose [left] addresses one of her rebellious characters in 'Pencil Bookings...

Author: By Jean A. Riesman, | Title: As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

Hartley and his staff drafted the 1979-80 budget early this month and then proposed a tuition increase to the school's board of trustees. Students received a letter last week announcing the increase...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Wellesley Expects 8 Per Cent Jump In Tuition Charge | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...first episode remained in the publishing world. Rejection slips again crowded Ross's mailbox. "While your prose style is very lucid," wrote Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, "the content of the book didn't inspire the level of enthusiasm ..." After a long delay, Random House sent a form letter, and an editor at William Morrow postscripted a consolation: "Sorry, I liked the opening gambit. Why don't you find an agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polish Joke | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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