Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lamont gives us what his publishers call "a firsthand report on college life today." Feeling around with his First Hand, Lamont discovered that there was a "dark side" to college life, that people didn't just row to Ivy Championships--they had problems, suffered from career pressures, sexual pressures. Just like anyone else. Eureka! Aflush with the joy of discovery, Lamont set his wisdom machine to work and came up with a program involving the end of grade inflation (a grade recession?), the fostering of alternate career routes, the institution of single-sex dorms, God-Knows-what-else...
...oversees all the graduate schools from his venerable Massachusetts Hall office, with the aid of four vice presidents. Except when dragged out by student activists like those concerned with South Africa, he keeps out of the headlines--emerging to release his president's report, which examines a different corner of the University each year (recent topics included the Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and relations with the federal government...
...Overseers--shadowy almost to the point of insubstantiality, as far as most students are concerned. The Overseers are organized into visiting committees, one for each Harvard department or institution. What do these committees do? Well, they visit. They talk to students and faculty, bring in experts, and issue a report after it's all over. The Overseers do little else, except provide Harvard fund-raisers with a ready-made group to tap. Their president, Andrew Heiskell, is also chairman of Time, Incorporated...
...council contended that the original Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) no longer fulfilled federal requirements because the MBTA had altered its plan for the extension after the report was written...
Critical as the investigators may have been of the utility, the NRC itself got a wrist slap from Congress. In a report approved by a 29-to-2 vote, the House Government Operations Committee severely chided the commission for failing "to demonstrate strong constructive leadership" in developing evacuation plans and related emergency procedures for areas surrounding nuclear plants. Of 25 states that have these facilities, the study said, 16 do not have such NRC-approved plans. As one committee staffer summed up: the NRC just "pretended that accidents could not happen...