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Boston University (B.U.) has been a minefield of labor blow-ups for five years, ever since it became the first major private university in the country with a faculty union. A lengthy strike last April by professors, secretaries and librarians ended with a contract faculty officials said would end the problems...
...Rochester, Russell A. Sibley '44, whose family founded the city's main department store, has been the College Fund representative and an active fundraiser for many years--he managed the local effort of the Campaign for Harvard College in the 1950s, Harvard's last major capital drive, and last year ran his class's 35th reunion as well. Rider says the Harvard Club has left most of the fund-raising work to him. "You need to have one enthusiastic guy like Russ Sibley to keep things going and to keep other people interested," he says...
...capital campaign hasn't shaken Rochester up yet. At a luncheon meeting last January about 20 local alumni gathered to evaluate the prospect for donations, but no one has given the Campaign much thought since. And the Harvard Club doesn't expect it to cause a major upheaval, either. "The only way it might really affect us is by making it harder for us to get people to pay dues, with the competition from the fund drive," Rider says...
Harvard will host four major women's events this season. Today the team has home advantage against the other colleges in the New England Women's Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEWISA) Invitational. The Victorian Coffee Urn will take place November 6 and 7 prior to the final NEWISA Invitational, which will be November 14. The last race hosted by the women's team is the Three-Crew Team Race, November...
...instructed him to make sure the History Department provided "an adequate offering for student needs." MacCaffrey said that he could not quote "a magic number" that represents an adequate number of courses, but he said he interprets minimum coverage to mean "at least one course in each of the major areas of American history...