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...school. New York Medical College has set up a Medstart Committee to recruit interested Negroes and Puerto Ricans. New York University found itself this summer, for the first time in 30 years, with no Negroes in its entering class of 131, so it recruited four who may need tutoring in science. Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, with a class of 132, accepted four Negroes on the strength of routine tests, then added a fifth who had a substandard school record but showed unusual motivation...
Remote Powers. Despite the need to ease tension on the campus, the administration of President Grayson Kirk has concentrated on defining new procedures for handling discipline and demonstrations. Kirk has also called in a major Manhattan public relations agency to advise the university-a move that smacks more of image building than real change. His only concrete concession to reform so far has been the appointment of Associate English Professor Carl F. Hovde as new Dean of Columbia College. Hovde is an admirer of student activists and welcomes the fact that the spring rebellion shook the place up. Most students...
...board of trustees, who promised a re-examination of the entire governing structure of the university, has offered nothing specific so far. Apparently fed up with the unresponsiveness of both trustees and administrators to the need for change, Columbia's journalism dean, Edward W. Barrett, resigned this month after complaining about "authoritarian rule by remote, inaccessible powers." He urged that younger people, including some students and faculty, be made trustees (the average age is now 62). In filling a new vacancy, the board last week ignored this advice, passed over such proposed candidates as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark...
...manned interplanetary flight and redundancy of experiments. Funds now earmarked for manned programs, they insist, should be diverted to unmanned instrumented flights that are "capable of answering the major scientific questions that we can now pose about the planets." For flights beyond the moon, the report sees no current need for "the unique abilities of man," neither his on-the-spot reasoning nor his capability for unprogrammed reaction...
Many shipowners agree with President Manuel Diaz of American Export Isbrandtsen Lines that the Soviet fleet is a "very real threat." Since the Soviet government need not show a profit on its ships, goes the argument, Communist ships could easily cut rates and drive free-world ships out of business. For their part, the Russians say that they are anxious to join the rate-setting conferences that they once condemned as "capitalist cartels." "I see no reason why we should not operate like other shipping men," says George Maslov, London-based boss of Russia's Anglo-Soviet Shipping...