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...John R. Silber, president of Boston University, Thursday offered Kennedy Corporation president Stephen E. Smith the air rights over the Massachusetts Turnpike or the Commonwealth Armory as possible sites for both the Kennedy museum and library...
...playing drums. But that career is off to a shaky start. Student-government groups at both Boston University and Michigan State voted not to meet his $2,500 fee on the ground that he should be free to speak, all right, but not at student expense. B.U. President John Silber later re-invited Ziegler in the interest of free speech, offering to pay him $1,000 in university funds, but Ziegler's agent rejected that as too small. Silber observed that "the process of Ziegler's mind provides excellent material for a textbook on logical fallacies...
...Maistre to do it: Regent Frank C. Erwin Jr., an ex-Democratic national committeeman and crony of Lyndon B. Johnson and former Governor John Connally. Erwin has really run the 16-campus university for more than a decade. Four years ago, for example, he personally fired Liberal Philosopher John Silber as dean of Austin's College of Arts and Sciences, telling him, "You scare the hell out of the incompetents above you." Silber went on to become president of Boston University, and more than a dozen other top scholars left Texas soon after he departed...
...expect to be hit hard as the baby-bust generation of the late '60s and early '70s begins to turn 18 in the 1980s. For economic and other reasons, enrollments have already started to shrink, but the situation will get worse in the years to come. John Silber, president of Boston University, predicts that some 200 smaller colleges, accommodating an average of 5,000 students each, will have to close, and many larger institutions will become academic ghost towns. Anticipating the coming pinch, the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts has cut three buildings and $100 million...
...FAMILY ALBUM Assembled by MARK SILBER 93 pages. David R. Godine...