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...Marching Band's traditional off-color routine offended at least two opposing schools sufficiently to prompt their administrators to take action. The West Point athletic director expressed displeasure with the hand's performance two years ago when it ridiculed an American president and the rigid life of a cadet. The Army barred the band from attending the October game played at West Point Following the game against the University of Massachusetts. UMass president David Knapp sent a letter to President Bok complaining about obscenities in the band's act. That prompted a meeting between band members. Bok and Dean...
...graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with K-School professors often prompt them to ask for help in setting up programs based on their K-School experience...
...past 10 years, custodian Rosovsky has generally preserved that treasure well. Today's Faculty, thanks largely to the dean, is more harmonious, more solvent and more purposeful than the one he inherited in 1973. The news last week that Rosovsky will step down next June does more than prompt and assessment of the dean's successes and failures. It also, in light to Rosovsky's great impact in the University's second most powerful post, underscores the need for a careful, open and wide-ranging search for a successor...
...hundreds of experts, the eleven-member Commission on Strategic Forces brought forth its 26-page final report last week. There were few surprises. The blue-ribbon panel, appointed last January by President Reagan as a last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range, like the MX's, of 8,000 miles...
...said recently that officials were initially somewhat hesitant about tonight's forum because of their recollections of the last student attempt to prompt discussion of the Ad Board--a Quincy House seminar that Fox said was poorly attended...