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After Ongania imposed strict new rules on Argentina's nine national universities last month, students rioted, six rectors resigned, and nearly half of the 2,000 teachers at the big (81,000 students) University of Buenos Aires said they would quit rather than take an oath of loyalty to the regime. Last week, when Ongania attempted to reopen the university under a new, pro-government rector, students paraded through the streets chanting "Books si, boots no!" Police arrested 85 of the rioters, and Ongania banned the country's student federation, which promptly called a nationwide strike...
Although political turmoil may be the spice of life at South American universities, it is far from being their most serious problem. Judged solely by academic considerations, the quality of the education they offer is shockingly low. Dr. Luis Alberto Sanchez, rector of the University of San Marcos in Peru, goes so far as to say that some of his country's 22 universities are in danger of becoming "intellectual slums...
Wrecks & Whales. Founded by Royal Charter of England's King William III in 1697, Trinity Church was put on the road to prosperity when an early colonial governor of New York gave its rector title to all wrecks and whales washed ashore on Manhattan. Early communicants included Alexander Hamilton, who is buried in the graveyard, George Washington, and even Pirate William Kidd, whose affiliation is commemorated by a plaque in the luxuriously carpeted vestry room. Later, such wealthy worshipers as John Jacob Astor contributed more marketable assets than whales to Trinity. Today, a vestry that includes New York Stock...
Reformed Catholic. To succeed the late Father John Heuss, who died in March, the Trinity vestry last month named the Very Rev. John V. Butler, Dean of Manhattan's St. John the Divine Cathedral as their church's new rector. A self-styled "Catholic in the reformed tradition," Butler fits into Trinity's high-church pattern, has a reputation as a pastoral preacher who skillfully uses Biblical passages to illuminate modern themes. Butler would like to see some of Trinity's daughter chapels become selfsupporting, thus providing seed money for new projects in Harlem and other...
...Saudi Arabia's Islamic calendar, this year is 1386, and visitors to the-desert kingdom often feel that is about where Saudi Arabia stands on the Western calendar. Justice still decrees an eye for an eye. Marriages are arranged sight unseen. A few weeks ago the deputy rector of the Islamic University at Medina even came out in support of a 14th-century theory that the world is flat and mountains are only ballast to keep it from tipping over. But for all this, Saudi Arabia's old ideas and old ways are giving way to the 20th...