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Most foreign students are a little shocked by the competitive American ethic that is exhibited in the pre-med syndrome. Gikas Hardouvelis '78, from Greece, says he never had to compete for anything before he came here, and says he finds it hard to accept competition as a way of life. Elena Granaglia '79, from Italy, says she just ignores the competition, and hopes to avoid becoming the kind of student that learns nothing but how to get good grades...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Grain of Salt | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...Humorist Lily Tomlin recently stood on her head to refresh herself while teaching a class on satire. John Lennon will be the guest lecturer this week in a course called Making It in Rock. The New School Bulletin, a catalogue that might be better titled The Best of Club Med and Esalen East, routinely offers courses like Psycho-karate, Body Language, French in Guadaloupe and the Sensuous Experience of Dining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bloomie's of Academe | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

Harvard's duplicity in the Med Area was amply proven by its personnel-office juggling back in '72. On a tip from Ropes and Gray, the University changed the structure of the Med area personnel department, ostensibly for administrative reasons but most probably to foil a potential unionizing drive. Powers now states unequivocally that the Med Area personnel office is simply a branch of the main University personnel department which he helps administer; the union bitterly remembers that it wasn't always that...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Parrying the Final Blow | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

POWERS SAYS the University is pursuing a valuable institutional objective by attempting to force clerical and technical employees in the Med area to seek membership in a larger, university-wide bargaining unit. "If we don't achieve central unionization under a centralized personnel policy," he explains, "then we won't be able to avoid deficits, or to operate at all effectively...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Parrying the Final Blow | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

...Leet: "It is the job of the National Board to make sure that a coherent overall policy is followed, and that case precedent is followed to the extent that the Board sees fit." If the Board sees fit to ignore precedent in this case, the enemies of a Med area union may in fact have found an unwitting ally in the halls of the National Labor Relations Board...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Parrying the Final Blow | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

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