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...Faculty had approved this motion, Douglas could have returned to campus in five years, after petitioning the Ad Board and meeting any conditions it set. Withdrawal is considered a lesser punishment because the Ad Board traditionally is far more open to re-admitting students after their term of withdrawal...
...Faculty member said yesterday that the motion for dismissal carried an important message to students in addition to its concrete effect on Douglas...
Last week, five Faculty members proposed thatDouglas be allowed to withdraw for five years. Ifthat motion is approved today, Douglas couldreturn to campus if he meets the requirements ofthe Ad Board...
...reality, of course, history is not a movie. It resists simple plotting and easy moralizing. It is, in fact, a script trapped forever in development (and sometimes in turnaround), as each new generation reinvents the past according to its needs. That the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing...
...motion for Douglas' dismissal was first introduced in a closed portion of an Oct. 20 Faculty meeting but did not reach a vote, Paul said...