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Five of the 17 students on probation were arrested in the University Hall raid. Mrs. Bunting said that no one has decided yet whether the Committee of 15, set up by the Faculty, will discipline Radcliffe students, or if the Radcliffe Judicial Board will...
...added that the Administration "underestimated the emotional effect of the raid on the University community...
...older children, military training is part of the curriculum. In Pyongyang's Youth and Student Culture Palace, visitors watched primary-school children firing at wooden targets on which pictures of American soldiers were pasted. At a high school, Japanese newsmen observed an air-raid drill. "You never know when those Americans might wage war on us," said one of the teachers...
Research has turned scholars into entrepreneurs, switching their loyalty from universities to the Government or corporations that pay the bills. As universities raid one another's top scholars, the stars take their research grants with them, as well as their close colleagues. Where faculty members were once devoted to their university, many now focus on their own movable fiefdoms. Worse for students, they view mere teaching as an onerous chore. Graduate students do most undergraduate teaching, while top professors shuttle to Washington to advise men in power...
...Faculty voted down, 35-19, a proposal to "express our lack of confidence in the President's ability to deal with these problems in the future." A resolution supporting the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' joint condemnation of the occupation and the polce raid was also defeated...