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...THINK THAT college presidents would enjoy their jobs. With their prerequisite mansions, free food, enough parties with alums and sherries students to keep anyone satisfied sounds tantalizingly attractive. But gathered together recently with Symposium on Higher Education at the Education School, though, four once and future college presidents expressed more than mixed feelings. Moderated by the presiding dean of of American sociology. Ford Professor of Social Sciences emeritus David Riesman M. ex-officials addressed the question "How Much Authority Does a College President Really Have?" Like most questions punctuated with reality, the question begs answers that will debunk certain myths...
Wearing an orchid corsage the size of a catcher's mitt, the stooped honoree attended the whole symposium, a taxing thing when you consider the hard slogging certain scholars can subject an audience to. "I just feel like, well, it's all for me, and it would be rude to miss one of the speakers," she said early on. "I can just hear my mother saying, 'Girl, you're getting a little too much attention,' " she said toward...
...student panel at the afternoon symposium was greeted with mixed responses. "They were exceptionally bright and impressive," said Listernick...
...several years, it seemed all but impossible for a prominent person to bring a successful libel suit; journalists were emboldened to enterprising, at times overly aggressive, reportage. In the past few years, however, Supreme Court rulings have nibbled away at the privileges afforded by Times vs. Sullivan. At a symposium last week of top libel-law scholars-including the main attorneys in the Times case-the consensus was that journalism needs some further protection...
...declined to be identified because the study has not yet been made widely public. Wands and his team will present their findings to an international symposium today in San Francisco...