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Today, the election offerings are longtime state politician Francis X. Bellotti and Boston University President John R. Silber. Our reluctant choice is Bellotti--simply because we cannot stomach the thought of the dictatorial Silber ruling Massachusetts as he dominated...
...fair, Silber has been an able adminstrator at B.U. Under his leadership, the University's academic prestige has increased dramatically. But the dictatorial methods he used to achieve these ends underscore the simple fact that he is unfit to be the governor of this or any other state. Such tactics are hardly acceptable in a private academic institution; they have no place in a democratic government...
...president of the school since 1974, Silber has alienated faculty, staff and students alike in what amounted to a massive seizure of power. With the help of an unprecedented tuition hike, Silber quadrupled the size of university administration and funded secret-police-like surveillance of student protests and faculty activities. Under his leadership, B.U. was cited in court for gender discrimination in employment and for violating students' First Amendment rights...
WASHINGTON--It's election time in Massachusetts again and while Evelyn Murphy engineers coups, John Silber angers Blacks and William F. Weld '66 launches a comeback, the only word for the congressional races is "sleepy...
...running for Governor, a job that the increasingly unpopular Dukakis is not trying to hold on to. But Murphy, an unimaginative campaigner who repeats liberal cliches with square-jawed earnestness, is badly trailing her Democratic primary opponents: former state attorney general Francis X. Bellotti and Boston University President John Silber. Aides have long advised her to wake up voters by breaking with Dukakis...