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...benefit from the body's structure. He firmly believes that these elements of the autonomous government--much more than policy-making--are the core of the structure's legitimacy. Even at Ivy League schools where the budgets are considerably smaller, leaders reiterate the importance of funding. Says Princeton's Saxon: "When it comes to legitimizing the student government here, it's the services. That's what students can get their teeth into...
Student leaders at other schools, however, view Harvard's huge delegation as too large to be effective. "You're not going to get anything done. To me, that would seem unwieldy," says Princeton's Undergraduate Student Government President I. Kenneth Saxon. It remains unclear exactly how much interest there will be in the Yard and houses when 90 brand-new seats are unveiled and put up for grabs next September. But the anemic attendance record for the Student Assembly this spring--when only 55 students volunteered for the group's 96 spots and just 21 attended the final meeting--suggests...
...more than 24 hours later, Saxon Industries, another major office-equipment manufacturer (1981 sales: $715 million), said that it was going into bankruptcy. The company had also run out of money because of the high cost of financing its debt...
...companies were incorporated, 80% more than in 1975 and 53,000 more than in 1980. During the past 18 months, hundreds of people became millionaires or multimillionaires when shares in their new companies were sold to the public for the first time. Among the stock winners: Bill Saxon, 53, of Saxon Oil Co. ($212 million); Philip Knight, 43, of Nike athletic shoes ($178 million); Herbert Boyer, 45, and Robert Swanson, 34, of Genentech ($32 million each...
When I retired from teaching in 1973, the new math had already begun to destroy the teaching of algebra. In the dim period that followed, I kept hoping for something like the new textbook written by John Saxon [Dec. 21]. Unfortunately, it is too late for some of the misled students of the '70s who are not able to deal with complexities such as filling in Form 1040. For today's students, the Saxon book spells a renaissance...