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Banfield said he would not comment on his decision because he has not "yet written a letter to the Provost at the University of Pennsylvania," which he said would be a proper step before announcing his departure...
Saxon, vice chancellor of U.C.L.A. and provost of the entire university, will assume the top job at a crucial period. Once unquestionably one of the best universities in the nation, California has been buffeted by both the excesses of student demonstrators in the 1960s and the conservative fiscal policies of former Governor Ronald Reagan. Libraries and the physical plant have deteriorated, and the university's vigorous growth has been brought to a halt. Berkeley has dropped its departments of criminology and demography; U.C.L.A. has closed down its department of speech and graduate school of journalism. Although U.C. is still...
...Jefferson Lecture. The National Council of the Humanities, composed of 26 presidential appointees, makes the final decision on the choice of a lecturer. At the time of Freund's selection, council members included Edward H. Levi, former president of the University of Chicago and present attorney general, Hanash Gray, provost of Yale, and Martin I. Kihon, professor of Government...
...rent was due in New York and in Lombard. Educational Testing Service was demanding payment on its $200,000 loan. Gould resigned as institute president last month (although he remains a trustee), and at an emergency meeting Lowther was thrown off the board. Lawrence E. Dennis, 54, former provost of the Massachusetts state college system, was named treasurer and acting president. Dennis estimates that the institute is at least $500,000 in debt and may have to shut down at the end of the month. Meanwhile, the Lowthers have brazenly filed a bankruptcy suit against the institute, claiming that...
...ever going to disappear is Soviet covert activities of a political nature. To say détente stops them is grossly naive." Thus Bundy argues that the U.S. should not be precluded from covert actions, but should not use such actions as extensively as in the 1950s. Bowdoin College Provost Olin Robinson, an authority on intelligence organizations in democratic societies, agrees: "Unless you've got a cast of world characters who are willing to play by a certain set of rules, you're going to have covert operations." In other words, the CIA should be left the capacity for covert action...