Word: provosts
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...enough professors-black or white-with academic specialization in the field. Partly out of practical necessity, universities generally agree that a teacher's color is irrelevant in matters of scholarship. "You don't need a Greek to teach Greek or a Communist to teach Marx," contends Rutgers Provost Richard Schlatter. Anyone with a valid claim to expertise in black studies can just about choose his campus. Brooklyn College has created a chair in Afro-American studies, offering up to $31,000 a year, but has yet to find an occupant...
...equally clear that Columbia's academic rebels are so concerned with the failures of an intransigent system that they themselves are intransigently determined to prevent the university's restoration at any cost. "The events of Tuesday night," said Columbia Provost David Truman, "brought home to a lot of faculty and students just what we're up against with the hard core of the demonstrators...
...Students for a Democratic Society, declared Columbia Provost David B. Truman last week, were deliberately "seeking a confrontation with the university." Thus Truman seemed to support the widespread notion that the wave of recent demonstrations and strikes at Columbia were all part of a conscious conspiracy. That is unlikely. S.D.S., which has played an active role in most of the U.S. campus uprisings, certainly believes in all sorts of radical confrontation, but conspiracy is not really its game. If anything, it is an organization whose members shy away from organization...
...sympathy for the protesters. There were numerous student rallies on campus, one of which led to a brief but violent clash with police that contributed eleven more injuries to the week's total. Both the Spectator and the moderate student government called for resignations of Kirk and Provost David Truman and joined S.D.S. President Mark Rudd in urging a campus strike-a suggestion formally supported by 400 faculty members. Rudd, 20, was leader of last March's sit-in at Low Library (for which he was put on disciplinary probation), and recently returned from a three-week visit...
...trustees appointed Frank Farmer, dean of the Graduate School at the University of Oregon, as President of F.C.C. and David Dickson, professor of English at the University of Michigan, as its provost...