Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helping incoming President Edwin Etherington, former head of the American Stock Exchange (TIME, July 22), on a study of education policies and programs. A student committee on university development offers advice on campus construction plans. Wesleyan undergraduates also rate their professors. And their voices are not ignored: when Senior Dave Eger objected to administration plans to build a hockey rink before erecting a needed gymnasium, he rounded up 546 students' signatures on a petition. Thanks to his protest, the plans are being reconsidered...
...prison library. Hearing of his plight, Northern Illinois U. snipped academic red tape and gave him his exams early. He sailed through with a B average and sailed out of Stateville only 23 days late. Next fall he hopes to enjoy the real and academic freedom of an undergraduate senior, perhaps on the Northern Illinois campus...
...centuries-old breach with Rome. Unlike the retired Chrysostomos, the new primate is an active ecumenist who has been a delegate for the church of Greece at several interfaith councils. Reflecting what may well become a new era of good feeling in Mediterranean Orthodoxy, Athenagoras last week sent his senior bishop, Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon, to represent him at the enthronement. Said Meliton, as he presented the new primate with a gold-handled pastoral staff: "It is high time that we proceed together...
...borrowing to replenish their coffers or pay off short-term bank loans. Says Donald C. Miller, vice president of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co.: "The difficulties of the money panic last fall are still so real that companies do not want to go through that again." Guy E. Noyes, senior vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., blames much of the demand on businessmen's desire to "beat the central bank" by borrowing before the Reserve Board again tightens up on credit to fight inflation...
...Staff Tuition Scholarships should be taken into account when computing the income of a Teaching Fellow junior grade. These scholarships in fact raise the total income of a Teaching Fellow junior grade above that of a Teaching Fellow senior grade. This is the time to point out that various forms of payment to Teaching Fellows cannot be separated for purposes of argument. They come from the same source, and go to the same people...