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...actually did vote on a single issue in 1989--John Silber. I have this thing about totalitarian, racist, misogynist men running for state offices. I voted against him in the primaries. I even headed up to a caucus meeting at the Peabody School to try to get Harvard students elected to the state convention so that they could pick Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy to run instead. But we didn't succeed...
...speech will be followed by a photo opportunity at the office of B.U. President John Silber, a conservative Democrat who lost the 1990 race for Massachusetts governor...
Many colleges, in the era of permanent retrenchment, will have to offer a narrower range of courses than in the past. But this does not necessarily mean intellectual deprivation. John Silber, the acerbic and outspoken president of Boston University, complains that he has seen "an increasing number of too small classes and too many courses. We have about 150 courses that study the human mind. But all that we know about the human mind could be taught in 30. A course on the effect of Anna on Sigmund Freud is fine. But it's part of the waste that...
...that means they have been run badly." One inevitable consequence of imitating or emulating government has been bureaucratic bloat: a self-perpetuating nomenklatura of assistant deans, development officers and other office-bound personnel. "Harvard doesn't have a financial problem, it has a management problem," contends B.U.'s Silber...
...This is not the Salvation Army," snaps crusty B.U. president John Silber, arguing that the need is for results. At a time when schools are being challenged to improve education or make room for private-sector solutions, the need to reward excellence and punish mediocrity is likely to carry the day, in the classroom as much as outside...