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...Breslow was toasting the fact that after a frustrating 18-month search, Columbia had finally found a permanent successor to Grayson Kirk, who resigned the presidency in 1968 following violent campus disorders. The man who has agreed to take over from Interim President Andrew Cordier next fall: William J. McGill, 47, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego...
...McGill, the trip east will be a homecoming. Born in The Bronx, he worked his way through Fordham University, graduating as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1943. After earning his doctorate from Harvard, he joined the Columbia faculty and rose to become chairman of the psychology department. Five years ago, convinced that Columbia was headed downhill and uneasy about the university's tense relations with its ghetto neighbors, McGill went to the new campus at San Diego. "I reflected on what kind of revenge society could take against an institution for ignoring its environment," he says...
...Jump. At San Diego, McGill earned the reputation of being a tough but tolerant referee, one whose jovial personality enabled him to walk the tightrope between conservatives on the university's board of regents and in the San Diego community on the one hand and his own liberal campus on the other. "I'm a gentle soul, but my skin is thick," he says...
...decision to reappoint Radical Philosopher Herbert Marcuse to the San Diego faculty outraged local American Legionnaires, brought insistent demands for McGill's ouster and prompted the regents to assume veto power over faculty tenure appointments throughout the nine-campus University of California system. McGill rode out the storm. "There will be no inquisition aimed at political heretics while I am chancellor," he assured his faculty...
...still another Harvard fault that could play right into the Tigers' paws. Harvard has more trouble than almost any team in the East in trying to hang on to two and three goal leads. Just this winter, it has allowed B.C. to rally for four goals. Clarkson for two, McGill for four and Penn for two-twice in the same game...