Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia conflict, in contrast, was not at all symbolic; the demonstrators' grievances at the university were real and targets included university decision-making in real estate, discipline, and accessibility of senior faculty. Columbia's self-perpetuating Board of Trustees exerts control over faculty and students on most university issues of consequence. Thus Columbia's enormous real estate ventures, which, according to James Ridgway, account for at least half the university's endowment funds, were not open to public or faculty scrutiny, review, or advice. Nor was there any faculty intermediary authority between the administration and the President and Trustees when...
...either, but here the situation is not inflammatory. Investments are controlled by the treasurer, George F. Bennett, who is responsible only to the Corporation, which may merely fire him if it does not like his investments. It so happens that none of Harvard's past three treasurers have been real-estate minded; the University's total real-estate investments, loans, and mortgages amount to $16.5 million, or 1.6 per cent of its total endowment investments. And these holdings, according to University tax manager Henry H. Cutler, are scattered around the country and based on Government credit or Federal guarantees rather...
...present, Columbia's 23 trustees are accountable to no one but themselves. All except the six alumni-elected trustees serve life terms. Unless real power is delegated down to faculty or students, then the whole body of trustees should be elected for set terms by faculty, administration, students, and alumni. Otherwise, this board, in which all real power is located, will never make decisions reflecting a changing university and community, and inevitable, ugly, confrontations will arise...
...issue in the fall was pass-fail and when the year began the HPC's chances of getting anything passed looked bleak. The spring befeore had seemed a real boggle as the new HPC repudiated a pass-fail plan by their predecessors which was close to adoption...
...crowd which gathered outside Elsie's in Freedom Square each morning to go up to New Hampshire was one mainly of middle-class moderates with a few SDS followers sprinkled among them. The real radicals, however, had only disdain for the campaign...