Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of the present flurry of petition-signing in support of academic freedom following the Planning 11-3b incident, it is to be hoped that Faculty members will recognize the need to extend the principle of academic freedom to the question of grades. Academic freedom should not be reduced to a club with which to defend the academic status quo against attacks by students. It is probably a radical concept, a belief that no intellectual problem can ever be so far beyond debate that it can be resolved legislatively, by corporate decision. The CEP and the Faculty should approve...
Exactly three years after American and Allegheny ushered in the new era, CAB Examiner Arthur S. Present on January 21, 1969 ruled that Youth Fare was 'unjustly discriminatory" and must be canceled. Acceptance of the Examiner's Report -- a routine formality in most cases--was held up this time by the CAB in order to allow the Board to "independently review" the matter. Should the Board adopt the Report--and a decision is expected late this month--Youth Fare will be dead before exam period begins...
...argument that Youth Fare promotes education, incidentally, seems as specious to the Examiner as the contention that it promotes highway safety by keeping young people off the road. Said Present' "No probative evidence [suggests] that youth fares have in any way facilitated the acquisition of a college education by any youth...
...best, another reprieve and another era of controversy. If the CAB does kill the Fare, or if the courts kill it at some time in the future, only special Congressional legislation can resurrect it. Senator Percy has in fact proposed such legislation, but even if his bill in its present form would be feasible (and some Hill veterans doubt that it would be), no one knows when, if at all, Congress will enact...
...present brevity means that it need solicit fewer advertisements to support itself. So, to the extent that it is competing with Boston After Dark for advertising, it is now less vulnerable. Its changed form also makes it a completely different sort of publication than BAD. It no longer tries to review events extensively; it spotlights only one movie, one concert, and one dramatic production. The rest of the Calendar is just that, a calendar...