Word: levins
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Boston University (B.U.) Professor of Political Science Emeritus Murray B. Levin '48, a member of the Quincy House Senior Common Room and a scholar-activist, died last Wednesday of heart problems...
Colleagues and former students remembered Levin for a lifetime of urging his students to challenge authority...
Eric Simon, a former student and close friend, said Levin wanted his students to connect their political views with their personal lives, reminding his class of simple truths like, "it's good to do good things for people...
...Levin, who urged his students to stand up for what they believed, practiced what he preached as a member of the so-called "B.U. Five," a group of tenured professors who taught classes outside to protest the administration failure to grant secretaries the right to unionize...
...time, Dean Richard Brodhead told the Yale Daily News that he was reluctant to set a precedent that would allow donors to influence academics. Yale faculty members supported Yale University President Richard Levin, saying that universities had to maintain the ability to direct academics...