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...today, despite rising tuition, Chicago continues to allow its faculty to shrink through attrition by 1% to 2% per year. Nearby Northwestern University lost $1 million last year, and expects a similar shortfall this year. Yale's 1978 deficit was $2 million. Dallas' Southern Methodist University is wrestling with a cumulative deficit of $6 million. "We're caught between the goddam rate of inflation and the miserable performance of the stock market," says University of Chicago Provost Gale Johnson. "Our costs go up, and our endowment goes down. It's a vicious crossfire...
...amount of procedural change is likely to resolve the basic problem. According to the Rev. J. Gordon Melton, a Methodist who heads the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Evanston, Ill., cults are a natural outgrowth of the religious climate in urban areas. "In a city no one cares what his neighbor does for religion," says he. "You can always sell a few people on every weird idea that comes along." By his reckoning, 10% of America's urban population is touched in one way or another by the new cults. As Melton sees it, that figure...
...Alaska, by contrast, public drunkenness among adults is the big and growing problem, especially in remote communities. In Nome (pop. 2,585), a Methodist minister led a drive to close the town's seven bars and three liquor stores, pointing to the fact that two other similar-size Alaskan towns had chosen to go dry. Nome's voters rejected the idea 3 to 1, but the town council passed an ordinance closing liquor stores early, which in Nome means midnight. Bars, however, can still serve customers until 5 a.m. on Friday and Saturday...
...Electric Chairman Reginald Jones agreed, explaining: "It was reassuring to hear the President place his main emphasis on measures aimed at the basic causes of inflation: excessive Government spending and regulations that add needlessly to the cost of doing business." While voicing some reservations, Carter Murphy, head of Southern Methodist University's economics department, viewed Carter's promise to veto more tax cuts as "a courageous political decision...
...protests are muted, but one top churchman reports "bitter reaction in our churches." At the recent meeting of the world's Anglican bishops, a routine W.C.C. support motion got through only with an antiviolence rider attached. In the U.S., important elements in such W.C.C. member groups as the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese are upset...