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Against his proposal on continuing the STS program, James S. Duesenberry, Maier Professor of Money and Banking and a member of the Committee on Fellowships, argued that the new tuition abatement program is more equitable than the STS program and the changeover to it should not be delayed...
...assistant professor of History whose appointment was hanged this year is Charles S. Maier '60. Maier was appointed an instructor in Spring 1967. In Fall 1969, after the enactment of the Dunlop Report's recommendation to phase out the position of instructor, Maier became an assistant professor. Under the provisions of the changeover period, he opted for a four-year term. His contract came up for renewal this year, one year before its fourth and final year...
...incident was the latest skirmish in a long war. Maier was unhappy with local coverage of the 1967 Milwaukee riots and the sympathetic press given Father James Groppi, who led street demonstrations in favor of an open-housing law. The mayor rarely misses an opportunity to belabor the Journal Co.'s monopoly, and he once tried to instigate a federal antitrust suit against the company...
Fifteen months ago, Journal Editor Richard Leonard, in the interest of fairness, offered the mayor a regular column. "Feel free," Leonard wrote, "to state your feelings toward monopolistic practices in the mass media." Maier accepted, and the columns appeared as written until Maier decided to answer a December article by Joel McNally, a Journal city hall reporter. "Fiction has its place," Maier wrote, "but not in public affairs. Time after time, city officials have unsnarled public issues thoughtlessly and carelessly tangled by false and reckless reporting...
...keep the faith," retorted the mayor. The incident, he went on, "illustrates how channels of communication in a monopolistic situation are so clogged by the monopoly that the public is denied access to a free flow of truth." In announcing that he would be deaf to Journal Co. reporters, Maier was perhaps listening to the voice of political experience. He was re-elected overwhelmingly in 1968 after dueling with the press, and the next election is April...