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After a decade, the department has one and one-half tenured professors and eight concentrators. Since 1971, the number of concentrators has dropped 76 per cent and course enrollment 58 per cent. Its junior faculty is discontented and its students are furious. Last spring, while Eileen Southern, the chairman of the department, was away on a semester sabbatical, junior faculty met with Dean Rosovsky and the Faculty Council to voice their dissatisfaction with her. At the same time, a series of demonstrations charged the administration--and Rosovsky in particular--with a systematic campaign to destroy the department...
This year, more than $85 million will travel from Washington's offices to Cambridge's laboratories and libraries, Robert H. Scott, director of financial systems, reports. At the Medical Schol, officials say, 70 per cent of all research funds come from various federal agencies. "The National Institute of Health (NIH) is the lifeblood of the Medical School research effort," Elizabeth A. Picard, associate dean of the Medical faculty for financial affairs, says flatly. Federal funding has become the linchpin of academic research...
...Nineteen per cent of those surveyed last Monday and Tuesday rated Carter's work excellent or good, the poll showed. That approval rating was down six points from Carter's previous low in July. The 19 per cent rating is the lowest any president has received since the poll began in the 1950s...
Fifty-six per cent of the public said Carter is not tough enough in dealing with the Soviet Union, and only 10 per cent gave him an excellent or good rating for his handling of the economy. On foreign policy, 22 per cent gave Carter top ratings, down 11 points from July...
...fourth of the Democrats polled gave Carter an excellent or good rating overall, down eight points from July and 53 per cent of the people who said they voted for Carter in 1976 now say they do not want...