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Harvard's rules on academic policy allow considerable leeway, and so it is seldom that departments bring their affairs to the full Faculty. When questions of policy or appointments arise within a department, the senior members (those with permanent rank) make the decisions. The departments always initiate recommendations for appointments within their discipline. These decisions are rubberstamped by the Dean and Governing Boards when non-permanent Faculty members are concerned; decisions on permanent status are usually subject to favorable review by ad hoc committees, consisting of scholars outside the nominating department and appointed by the Dean. The Corporation (the President...
...Department chairmen are seldom the department's most powerful men, for the latter are often too strong-willed and even disputatious to get along with the Dean. These powerful men are the ones who hold the balance of power on the educational reform efforts that students have sporadically called for during the past decade. If the alternative of a more informal, flexible, and liberal education is to complement the current departmental specialization and pressures, students will have to work through departments, as well as through their Faculty and Administrative sympathizers...
...guarantee payment. One exception is Detroit's B. Siegel Co., a clothing store with a policy that limits young working girls to accounts of $100 or less for the first six months-until, says Credit Sales Manager William Honig, "we see that a satisfactory payment pattern is established." Seldom does the store require adult co-signers. Explains Honig: "We're establishing credit for the young people, not for their parents...
...that he was not overly optimistic. Little in the research filed by TIME reporters across the country indicated that complaining commuters were in for much immediate relief. In fact, Washington Correspondent Juan Cameron, who interviewed Stuart Saunders, discovered that the busy boss of the country's biggest railroad seldom rides by train himself. He prefers autos or planes, and Cameron suspects he knows the reason. He took a trip in one of the Pennsy's private "company" coaches, and reports that it was spartan, overheated, and far from the sybaritic comforts of the days of the rail barons...
...fault system also forces insurers to compete almost entirely for "preferred risks"-drivers who seldom drive and people most likely to impress juries if they do get into trouble. As a result, thousands of unpreferred motorists have been unceremoniously stripped of their policies or forced to pay sky-high surcharges, not only because of accidents, but sometimes because they happen to live in "red line" (claim-prone) areas or belong to supposedly risky groups-a category that includes the young, the old, Negroes, actors, barbers, bartenders, sailors, soldiers and men with frivolous nicknames like "Shorty." Divorcees are often blackballed because...