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...Marine at Khe Sanh is Colonel David E. Lownds, 47, the mustachioed commander of the 26th Marine Regiment, who oversees the defense of the base from an underground bunker left over by its original French occupants. Sitting in a faded lawn chair, he seldom rests, night or day. He keeps constant watch over the nerve center, a labyrinth of whitewashed rooms lit by bare bulbs and bustling with staff officers and enlisted aides. Is he worried about the huge enemy concentration surrounding him? "Hell, no," says Lownds. "I've got Marines. My confidence isn't shaken...
...indications are that the answer is not money. The number of alumni who wrote after the Dow protest that they were halting contributions was negligible. Most such letters, reportedly, came from men who had seldom, if ever, given to the College. The twenty-fifth reunion drive is said to be heading toward another record year. Moreover, whatever may be said of President Pusey, his actions in the past do not seem to have been motivated by financial considerations. His fight against the NDEA disclaimer oath didn't ease the University's financial problems...
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...