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...suspect, thought I do not know, that several of the columns on this page predict that the key issue of the coming semester will involve ideological confrontations of one sort or another. Although apolitical in theory, universities have become ever more welcoming to ideological concerns...
Thus, if any of my fellow columnists predict that some crisis of theory will be the "big issue" of the coming semester, they will, in one sense, be correct. The issue that captures the most attention will be ideologically charged...
They say that even with the added incentives of improved emeritus status and better financial advice, the actual outcome of retirement choices under the new law remains too difficult to predict. It could range from a huge glut of aging professors to a minor shift in Faculty retirement patterns...
...That was the big mystery for our committee," says Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, a member of the FAS committee on retirement. "I think it's extremely difficult to predict...
...Caltech geologist Kerry Sieh, for one, is worried that the violent release of energy may have adversely affected the Elysian Park system, a deeply buried network of thrust faults directly under Los Angeles. Parts of this system have lain dormant, Sieh says, "since before Abraham." But he cannot predict when the faults might awaken...