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Also on the agenda of yesterday's CUE meetingwas a discussion of the CUE Guide. Several membersof the academics committee suggested that theannual course guide list the names of courseswhose professors declined to participate in theCUE evaluation process. About 35 courses refusedto be evaluated last year, in some cases becausecourses were deemed too small for inclusion...
...students, however, was less than warm. While students presented evidence of an antiunion campaign--such as asking work supervisors to oppose the unions and spreading rumors about senior employees' loss of status--Bok denied any knowledge or complicity. When the students offered to give reasoned arguments in a written list of complaints, Bok said he probably wouldn't have time to look at it. Still, it doesn't bother Bok to say that "universities should be the last institutions to discourage a belief in the value of reasoned argument and carefully considered evidence in analyzing even the hardest human problems...
...entrepreneur with the foresight to sell T-shirts saying, "I survived Ec 1011" could have made a fortune off the course's victims from the last two years. Last week's decision by the Economics Department to remove the course from its list of honors requirements will make the lives of future concentrators much easier...
Hachette joins a fast-growing list of foreign publishers operating in the U.S. Just last February, Britain's Pearson paid $283 million to take over Addison-Wesley, a Massachusetts-based textbook maker. As the buyouts continue, U.S. publishing may become increasingly like its European counterpart, an industry that is dominated by a few behemoths...
...Nixon-Kennedy television debate. In the "I am not a crook" protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances. The man who exalted the "Enemies List," vowing not to hate his haters, waving bravely from the chopper door, then flying back to California toward a town with a name that sounds like clemency...