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...area's high school pupils from culturally deprived areas. Sister Mary Christopher surveyed student rights on 20 campuses as an aid to a Colorado College committee assigned to draft a student rights bill. Air Force Academy Associate Professor George H. Janczewski, assigned to work with University of Pennsylvania Provost David Goddard, budgeted the host school's international programs in New Zealand...
...Texas, reviews issues at the University of Colorado with his mentor, Student Affairs Vice President Glenn Barnett, then bets him a Coca-Cola on the outcome. After ten weeks of forecasting, Jones is only two Cokes in the hole. Janczewski thinks of himself as "a working member of the provost's department," but echoes a majority of his fellow interns when he admits: "I can make mistakes for which I am not responsible...
Still, the American stamp was ev ident wherever the Vice President went. Accompanied by a horde of Secret Service men and military police ("They think I have a machine that spits M.P.s," groused one provost marshal), he cop-tered to the U.S.S. Benewah, flagship of River Flotilla 1 anchored off the Delta, to pass out Purple Hearts and news from home. "Who won the Minne sota-Michigan game?" asked a Minnesota sailor. "We took them 20 to 15," grinned Old Gopher Humphrey. Jetting up to Phu Bai, a small Marine outpost near the embattled DMZ, he boarded a transport plane...
...Campbell caught the essence of the occasion in terms that only students at a women's school can fully appreciate. Said she: "There's a new man around campus." Indeed there is. Last week Robert Joseph Wert, 45, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome former vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at nearby Stanford, was inaugurated the ninth president of the West's best-and almost only-nonsectarian liberal arts college for girls. He succeeds the retiring C. Easton Rothwell, who led the school for eight years...
...minimum at most prestige schools is $500,000, which, at a 5% return a year, provides up to $25,000 for the professor's salary. Yet the pursuit of such money is well worth a school's time and energy, since endowments free operating funds. Stanford Provost Richard Lyman considers endowed chairs, next to outright unrestricted gifts, "the best possible long-term financial base for a university...