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President Bok is a member of the group but did not sign the letter--probably because he was out of town and never saw it. John R. Silber, president of Boston University said yesterday. Bok declined to comment yesterday...
...presidents who signed the letter represent colleges that are actively involved with city public schools as part of a plan to speed desegregation by improving "magnet schools" to draw students from all over the city. Silber, the chairman of the President's Steering Committee of the Boston Schools Consortium said that it was essential that the committee involve itself in the school system including such action as the Spillane endorsement. "We are involved, it's right that we be heard," Silber said...
Boston University's faculty union voted yesterday evening to reject the administration's proposed contract renewal and to consider going on strike next term unless B.U. president John R. Silber presents an acceptable alternative...
Before the vote, John N. Westling, an assistant to Silber, said the union's rejection of the contract would be a "mistake," adding, "It would be an error in their judgement, but that't their right...
...luring Harvard's finest. Only a handful of professors--most notably Otto Eckstein and Martin Feldstein--have refused to come to dinner. President Bok is another refusenik, but there have been college presidents in attendance. President Horner was honored at an earlier dinner, and B.U. president John R. Silber accepted an invitation to attend last week. (A last-minute conflict forced him to send his deputy instead.) Of Bok Mitchell says, "We're hoping someday he'll accept our invitation. If the president of B.U. will come to a Harvard alumni group, there's no reason he shouldn...