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...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...
Black students from the various schools joined together to form the Black Action Movement (BAM) in order to present their eleven demands to the university administration. After receiving vague responses from university president Robben Fleming, BAM presented the list of demands to the Regents at their bi-monthly meeting on Thursday, March 19. The Regents' response was very unsatisfactory. They promised an admissions goal "aimed at ten per cent enrollment of black students and substantially increased numbers of other minority and disadvantaged groups" by 1973-74. The problem with this promise was that the Regents allotted only three million dollars...
...peace probes or rumors generally send stock prices jumping upward. Still, it is the campuses that offer the most vocal opposition and provide the broadest base for organized protest. The entire academic community seems as stirred as ever about the lingering combat. Last week University of Michigan President Robben Fleming personally launched a two-day campus teach-in at Ann Arbor with a sharp antiwar speech. Rutgers President Mason W. Gross, who also heads the American Council on Education, said that his university will demonstrate that it is "a teacher and guardian of civilized values" by suspending normal classes...