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The Alaska quake was a bell ringer too. Seismologist Jack Oliver of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory says that the whole earth vibrated every 54 minutes. The maximum surface movement was about one-third of an inch and was very gradually diminishing toward the fadeout point.
From shocked citizens across the country, the University of Illinois got a "massive public reaction" denouncing Oliver. That confronted President David D. Henry with a prickly case of academic freedom. Illinois is currently on the censure list of the American Association of University Professors as the result of the 1960...
This time Henry cautiously turned for advice to the faculty senate, got back a strong statement from its committee on academic freedom backing every professor's right to be "as ungloriously wrong, and suffer the professional consequences thereof, as to be gloriously right, and receive the acclaim of his...
Endorsing the faculty report, President Henry last week put the case to the Illinois board of trustees, got an overwhelming vote in favor of keeping Oliver. The university is rewriting its academic freedom statutes, and between this and its handling of the Oliver case, hopes to get off the A.A.U.P...
*His great-grandparents named their son Revilo Oliver to make a palindrome-a phrase that reads the same backward or forward. Oliver is his family's third consecutive Revilo.