Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serve much like a philosopher's stone, and leads people to forget about the phenomena themselves in their concern with elegant systems and whether they can fit into them. Then there is all this interest in theory building. As X put it the other day, there is so much regard for being critical and for rigorous theory we may be preventing, or at least not rewarding, people for creating ideas at a fairly low level...
...Faculty. Here, it seems to us, there are some important distinctions to be made. We do not believe it to be wise, for example, to include students as members of committees which deal with purely faculty matters such as faculty research support or research policy. Nor do we regard it as appropriate to include student members on degree committees or other committees which are engaged in making professional judgments about the qualifications of students for degrees and honors...
...judging by the communications which we have received from department chairmen, the consultative arrangements established at the graduate level have yielded positive results and created few problems. While concern is occasionally expressed over the time consumed by efforts to resolve differences of opinion, most department chairmen regard these meetings as useful to the department as well as to the students. As one chairman put it, "... the students have provoked some serious discussion in the faculty that has resulted in general agreement on different and more satisfactory ways of doing things. On the whole, the results have been beneficial to both...
There are larger questions involving the relations of the Dean to his Faculty which perhaps deserve to be aired at this stage of the report. What should the role of the Dean be? Virtually all members of the Faculty would join in the view that the Dean should regard himself as the voice of his Faculty, executing its decisions and representing its needs and opinions to the President and the Governing Boards. But what if his own Faculty is seriously divided Should he feel free to take initiatives that may be divisive and risk repudiation by the Faculty...
SALVATION. Begotten by Hair, this new musical is an aesthetically retarded child that epitomizes Modcom - the commercial exploitation of modernity without regard for dramatic art. Like other Modcom productions that peddle the youth cult. Salvation is replete with cynical simulations of innocence, freedom and dissent...