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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success of an interdisciplinary committee would rest on its ability to draw on the resources of the entire University community. But faculty with a perspective unique to the Afro-Am Studies department are not now available in the revelant departments of the college. In addition, judging by past performance as well as by affirmative action goals, we can not expect them to be available in the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Department | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...charge of attracting more tenured faculty to the department. Even though enrollments and the number of concentrators have increased in the last year, more encouragement is needed. Potential faculty have been understandably wary of joining a controversy-ridden isolated department. We urge that the administration put these fears to rest by vigorously supporting the department and the executive committee's tenure search...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Department | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...away from his office, she headed for the embassy commissary, one of few places in the sternly Islamic city where alcohol is served. "I thought I might have lunch and a beer and try to catch him before I left for my next appointment," she says. "You know the rest. It could happen to anyone who likes a beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...will continue to work and fight for our country." That referred to his bitter opposition to the long postponed referendum in which Quebec's Separatist Premier René Lévesque will ask for a mandate to negotiate a vaguely defined "sovereignty-association" for his province with the rest of Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: A Softy Says Farewell | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Lake Erie is a dead lake. Save the rest of the Great Lakes." So went the environmentalists' plaint during the 1960s. Lake Erie was not, in fact, quite dead, but it was suffering from a variety of serious disorders, including a seemingly uncheckable algae growth that, like a fast-spreading cancer, was choking off the other forms of life. Though the remaining four of North America's great chain of lakes-Superior, Michigan, Huron and Ontario-were less diseased, they too showed symptoms of serious, man-made illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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