Word: professor
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...Chicago police department in 1974, charging the force with politically motivated surveillance and harassment that was unconstitutional. Gutman admits that most of the cards cover the activities of suspected criminals, but he says that 64 bear information that is basically political. One card described a former University of Washington professor as a "Marxist scholar . . . present at many demonstrations in Seattle," none of which has anything to do with the Mafia...
...commission will determine whether charges should be brought against any justice. Whatever the outcome, the legal community frets that public airing of the matter may hurt the California judicial system. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: "In an immediate sense, it will add to the court's already damaged prestige." But, Gunther concludes, "in the long run, the hearings may help some of the justices search their souls and try to do better in their personal relations and at the quality level...
...former professor of mass communications who became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at 41, Dreyfus is a self-styled "Republicrat." He only joined the G.O.P. in December of 1977. "If you're going to take 'em over, the least you can do is join 'em," he says. An accomplished orator, he challenged and beat Congressman Robert Kasten, the official party choice, in the 1978 primary. He then went on to defeat Schreiber on a platform of open government, curtailed spending and tax relief. It was quite a feat for a political...
Says Daniel Maguire, an ex-priest and ethics professor at Marquette University: "He seems to see the world as Poland writ large." Poland's bishops hammer out any differences in private and then unite under the Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, in order to survive. This Polish Pope is accustomed to that type of collegiality, which means top-down obedience, not ecclesiastical democracy. No one knows how it will go when an international Synod of Bishops meets in Rome the fall of 1980 to discuss family life...
...performs all the functions that used to be scattered among different sources of information and entertainment." Television could, if we let it, electronically consolidate all of our culture -theater, ballet, concerts, newspapers, magazines and possibly most conversation. It is a medium of eerie and disconcerting power; one college professor conducted a two-year study that asked children aged four to six: "Which do you like better, TV or Daddy?" Forty-four percent of the kids said that they preferred television...