Word: robben
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There is a circle of three men in the latest list of 23 who can be described as academics, administrators, and labor mediators in no particular order. They are Derek Bok, Dean Dunlop, and Michigan President Robben Fleming; all are very different types...
...Robben W. Fleming, 54, president of the University of Michigan since 1968 and former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin...
...with the first list of 69, this one is characterized by a heavy emphasis on scientists (11) and economists (7). Of the 12 university presidents on the first public list, only two-Clifton R. Wharton, president of Michigan State University and Robben W. Fleming, president of the University of Michigan-remain under consideration. Wharton is the only black on the list...
...conscious vigor of Agnew's criticism [May 11] has expanded to include University of Michigan President Robben Fleming, along with other university presidents, student protesters, admission policies, parents who have read Dr. Spock and progressive preachers, not to mention any number of implied targets. All this under the guise of roasting marshmallows to give them tough coats. Perhaps in 1972, the marshmallows will have their own version of a roast...
...rule of reason is the guiding principle in an academic community, and those who apply the rule of force have no business there. It is folly for universities confronted with their current crisis in our turbulent times to open their doors to thousands of patently unqualified students. [President Robben] Fleming [of the University of Michigan, who acceded to black students' demands for the enrollment of 900 black students by 1971] buckled under to a few squads of kid extortionists. As for the vigor of my criticism of President Fleming, it was conscious-based on the old Cub Scout theory...