Word: melman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also approved at that meeting was a resolution that apparently assures no demonstrators will be expelled. The resolution asks for uniform punishment for all the students. "How could you expel several hundred students?" said Seymour Melman, professor of Industrial Engineering...
...Seymour Melman, industrial engineering professor at Columbia, has proposed that teachers give A's to all their students to avoid such choices. His Columbia colleague, Henry Linford, chemical engineering professor, retorted that "You can't botch up our educational system just to circumvent a Government order," and Dean David Truman calls overgrading a "violation of intellectual trust." Some students concede that they will choose easy courses to keep their grades high. An advertisement in the University of Michigan Daily urged coeds to muff their exams so the men could rank higher...
...Seymour Melman, professor of engineering at Columbia and The Peace explained that without job opportunities Negroes could not achieve equality. And job opportunities will continue to be because the American economy is geared to developing "a military competence for which there can be no useful purpose...
While producing weapons enough to destroy the U.S.S.R. 231 times over, the United States has failed to keep its underlying industrial machinery up-to-date, so that it is today, according to Melman, "the center of technological stagnation" among the developed nations of the world...
...letter from Merton accepting the citation, read by the Rt. Rev. George Casey, did not have the hopeful tone of Melman's talk. Merton, writing from a Trappist monastery in Jerusalem, said that because of his retreat from society he was not entitled to the citation. He accepted, however, because he said, at the exceptional...