Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monaghan said yesterday the incident was "just a matter of confusion." She said she had thought her name would be on the ballot because she had mentioned her plans to run for office to Burkhardt before the official ballots were printed...
Giamatti's acceptance of the presidence last December 20 ended the Yale Corporation's nine-month search for a successor to Kingman Brewster Jr. After 14 tumultuous years in New Haven, Brewster opted for London and the United States ambassadorship to England, a position many thought suited him well. With Brewster's departure, the Yale Corporation had a chance to revamp Yale's Waspish image. Hannah E. Gray, Yale's provost and then acting president, was said to be in the running. But one week before the decision was announced, Gray forfeited, accepting an offer to become president...
...what you worry about--the profession," Giamatti explains, "how the institution can sustain young people." He views the younger faculty, soon to be the senior faculty, noting the declining sense of the "profession." He wants to see the school teach the people who want to learn, releasing original thought out into the world...
...another case of nonexistent candidates, Ramon Diaz posted his platform proposal on the board in the union. Or so the organizers of the election thought. After his name was put on the ballot, Carl Rosen '79, who is in charge of freshman elections, discovered that no such student exists. The phone number given for the fictitious Diaz was that of Hurlbut proctor Raymond Mendez...
...Syrians, now the majority of an Arab League peace-keeping force stationed in the city, intervened in the civil war between leftist Lebanese Moslems, Palestinians and right-wing Christians, whom the Moslems thought had too much political power...