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...such measures are mostly conservative grandstanding, as some say, and if sponsor Bud Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican, counts on the Senate to moderate his don't-drink-the-water bill, there's an interesting question: Grandstanding for whom? A TIME/CNN poll in January reported that 55% of those asked would increase government spending on the environment, 16% would decrease it and 27% would keep spending the same. Other polls show strong environmental support among suburban Republicans and blue-collar white males, who are furious that business is pushing environmental cuts...
...Alvin Shuster, Senior Consulting Editor, Los Angeles Times, and Neiman Fellow...
...There are now some presidents who bridge the gap between the worlds of traditional academic values and the policy issues that are increasingly crucial for a university's survival," says Jack H. Shuster, education and public policy professor at Claremont Graduate School and a self-described "president-watcher." He says that this new breed can be called "scholar-practitioners," neither the traditional denizens of the academic world nor the mediators of the legal profession...
...certainly has an entrepeneurial capability," Shuster says. "He could have made departments across the board suffer the costs of the state's economic cuts. But the choice he made instead was a much more dramatic, tougher decision, that is to pick out parts of the university that would bear the brunt and parts that would remain strong...
...Shuster points out, however, that Princeton, which is not undergoing the same kind of financial turmoil that Michigan endured, probably was attracted to the academic rather than the entrepeneurial side of Shapiro's character...