Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spurred by what they see as disdain for faculty rights, 25 Boston University (B.U.) professors have formed a committee seeking to oust B.U. President John R. Silber.
Robert C. Bergenheim, B.U. vice president for labor and public relations, sharply denied Friday that the administration ignored faculty rights or bent the contract. But he said that the administration is "testing" various clauses in the contract, adding that the faculty union too is testing the contract and that such...
Bergenheim said the university trustees--who alone have the power to hire and fire the president--would not consider firing Silber because Silber's critics are only a small but vocal minority at B.U.
Silber has been extremely controversial at B.U. because of charges that he ignores the rights of students, staff, and faculty. In the spring of 1976 he survived an effort by a majority of the university's deans and professors to fire him, and today he is generally regarded as entrenched...
South Korean President Park Chung Hee was probably asssasinated because his colleagues believed his repressive policies were alienating U.S. support, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, said yesterday.