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...background of the recent changes there is a vicious metaphor at work according to which a university is like a business: this makes the administration the management, the faculty the employees and the students the customers. The metaphor...elevates the administration from their rightful place as servants and protectors of the faculty to the position of their judges and overseers...
College Fund money budget, but in factor in the Faculty budget, but in recent years alumni fundraisers have encouraged attractive gifts to the endowment. Such donations help the college in the long run, but cause trouble for Faculty administrators trying to balance the budget, because they need gifts of unrestricted money--which they can use wherever they need...
...recent events are meaningful because of the increased public interest they have generated. In the long run, though, Three Mile Island will be truly effective only if it brings about the earnest investigations and reevaluations the public has been promised. Everyone from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to President Carter has pledged "a full accounting" of the Middletown accident and a subsequent reexamination of the nation's commitment to nuclear power. But as President Carter so aptly commented this week, "I think it does not contribute to safety to have a bureaucratic nightmare or maze of red tape." The studies...
...John G. Kemeney will head the Presidential Commission set to examine nuclear power, and he has promised a complete and careful inspection of the state of the industry. He will be under the careful watch of the public and the many outraged elected officials who have capitalized on the recent threat to national welfare as a vote-getting band-wagon ripe for boarding...
Robert S. Kaufmann '62 assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, said yesterday the College Fund has deliberately encouraged alumni in recent years to give money restricted to the endowment, since it is easier to raise...