Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The fact that serious academic work will be blatantly misused, especially for fascist causes, is always a reason for concern. But one has to distinguish the serious and knowledge-seeking inquiry (which is always open to challenge and debate) from that misuse. Unscrupulous persons will always twist material for their...
His forehead glistening with beads of sweat, John R. Silber is hotly defending his record as president of Boston University [B.U.] before a crowded press conference. His face is ashen and his teeth are gritted, but his voice never breaks as he makes point after point in firm, measured tones...
John Silber is never one to back down in a confrontation. Cool, brilliant, and articulate, he fires verbal salvos with wilting accuracy--he once described faculty activists as "coffee house unionists" and reminded a student union president of his "pimples."
Now Silber is fighting hard to win his biggest confrontation yet. Next month he will preside over a faculty assembly that will debate a resolution calling for his dismissal. Twenty-five professors are active in a committee working to oust him, and the student forum of the college of liberal...
Since then Silber has reshuffled the board of trustees so that many observers believe the board is only a rubber stamp. Helen B. Spaulding, a former trustee who was edged out this fall after disagreements with Silber, says that at B.U. the president chooses the trustees instead of the other...