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...John Silber, a philosophy professor and former dean at the University of Texas, was appointed the seventh president of Boston University yesterday...
...many other citizens share. In the past four months, he has engineered the abrupt departures of six administrators, including Chancellor Harry Ransom and President (Austin campus) Norman Hackerman-both of whom, it is thought, were too soft on student militancy to suit Erwin. The latest casualty: Dr. John R. Silber, 43, one of the country's leading philosophers, who was fired as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, though he still retains his professorship. Dean Silber was ousted primarily because he opposed the administration's plan to split his college into smaller schools. He was also...
...unwilling to pay taxes to support an institution that just turns things over to these activist faculty members and students," says Erwin. "Students have no inherent rights to attend a college or university, just regardless of what they do." When some professors threatened to resign over Silber's dismissal, Erwin responded: "If any person employed by the university wishes to resign, all he need do is quit playing games in the newspapers and submit his resignation...
...guideline for creating new black culture courses, says Arts and Sciences Dean John Silber of the University of Texas, must be to "avoid racism in reverse-there has to be intellectual integrity behind the move." Although Texas has fewer than 200 Negro students, a petition for a Negro history course drew 1,800 student signers. The course will be taught by Sociologist-Historian Henry Allen Bullock. He intends to examine the Negro's origin in Africa and the clashes of African and European cultures, study the impact of the slave trade on the Caribbean and the U.S. South...
Harvard Yearbook Publications has elected the following officers for 1968-69: Kenric W. Hammond '69, of Leverett House and Pasadena, Calif., president; Lee S. Smith '69, of Winthrop House and Chicago, managing editor; James A. Allen Jr. '69, of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, N.Y., business manager; and Mark Silber '70, of Quincy House and Brookline, photography chairman...