Word: metcalfe
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...Chairman of the board of trustees is Arthur G.B. Metcalf, who is also president of Electronic Corporation of America. Metcalf and Silber are "Siamese twins" in outlook and philosophy, says Samuel Y. Edgerton, a professor of art history who adds that the trustees have an outdated vision of college life and see Silber as the last, best hope of maintaining that vision. Silber's toughness in dealing with students and professors may outrage the university community but it pleases the trustees, Edgerton notes...
Silber wrote Arthur G.B. Metcalf, chairman of the board of trustess: "I thought that press handling has been pretty good thus far and, fortunately, there is enough significant news elsewhere to prevent major space...
Most of the 800 faculty members represented by the union participated in the strike Thursday and Friday, and each side accused the other of aggravating the dispute. Arthur G. B. Metcalf, chairman of the board of trustees, said Wednesday a faculty decision to strike would negate the agreements already reached (including any raises), but administration spokesmen backed off that statement yesterday...
...Arthur Metcalf, chairman of the board of trustees and Wesley Christensen, spokesman for the administration, both declined comment on the union's latest action, but Christensen said last week the university was not willing to "bargain away our power to a minority union...
...inherited a team that had won 42 and lost 27 in the previous five years, a winner but a peculiarly brittle one with a tendency to snap around play-off time. Many of the regulars were also feuding with Owner Bill Bidwill, whom they accused of penny pinching. Terry Metcalf, the team's star running back and its sole threat to the outside, had played out his option and gone off to the Toronto Argonauts...