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...judges. That is hardly the case. In his 13 years as a federal appeals judge in Washington, Burger compiled a record of judicially unfashionable toughness in the criminal field (TIME Cover, May 30). Just how far his somewhat heretical positions go has become clear with the publication of a symposium held a year ago by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...pain researcher views this pattern depends mainly on his specialty, Sternbach told a pain symposium last month at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. Each investigator, he said, is "locked in" to thinking of pain in his own terms. Thus the psychologist views it as a basic, elementary sensation like sight or hearing. To the psychiatrist, it is an affect or emotion, like depression or anxiety; to the analyst, the product of an internal psychic conflict; to the neurologist or neurosurgeon, a pattern of neurophysiological activity. The biologist emphasizes its survival value. The existential philosopher, Frederik...
John Hanify '71, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council was easily the most popular speaker at the symposium. Clyde E. Lindsay '69, a member of Afro, also received praise, but the venom was heaped on Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, who, one member of the class of '44 said, "only mouthed a lot of words." Opinions of the Faculty were generally very low. One class member said he thought the Faculty should be abolished. Most seemed to feel that the Faculty had been weak-kneed in dealing with the University Hall takeover and should have taken a stronger stand...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee began working on a intersession symposium to discuss Harvard's governing system. Organizers of the symposium said they hoped it would produce recommendations for revamping the overlapping systems of student organizations...
April 24: President Pusey, in his first public appearance since the occupation, told a symposium at the Business School that "disruption and coercion has absolutely no place on this campus." Pusey said that unacceptable tactics were the main issue in the crisis and that "the kind of disruption that we've just experienced will not stop unless the communities themselves insist that they do stop...