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After the appointment, 700 of Austin's 1,700 faculty members attended an emergency meeting; they overwhelmingly approved a motion asking Lorene Rogers to resign and protesting that a person "found wanting" by the student-faculty committee "should not be thrust upon it." The Austin chapter of the American Association of University Professors called the appointment "a profoundly ill-considered, arbitrary and ugly action." The faculty senate voted not to participate in any university council meetings while Rogers is in office...
Critics also argue that the EIA would thrust heavy new demands into capital markets, either by borrowing or by having the Treasury borrow for it, thus crowding out private borrowers and fanning inflation by pushing up interest rates. Republican Banker Beryl Sprinkel, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, adds that the Government should let the free market decide which energy-development projects are worth financing and which...
Professor Kilson, in his letter in the October 1 Crimson, errs in attempting to turn into an "ethnic" issue what was-cleanly and thoroughly a religious concern of Rabbi Gold's in his sermon on Yom Kippur. He certainly did not "announce his leadership" of any "militant Jewish thrust" of any kind, as Professor Kilson says. Professor Kilson has made that up out of whole cloth...
...Kippur sermon at Memorial Church on September 14, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Harvard Hillel, announced his leadership of a militant Jewish thrust within the Harvard community. This is a regretful event, potentially even more destructive of that delicate framework of civility which sustains Harvard's greatness than the past militancy of blacks, leftists, and women. Like the latter's spokesmen, Rabbi Gold's claims for redressing Jewish grievances would have Harvard surrender its painstakingly acquired universalism to the cathartic requisites of a new particularism. He considers Harvard's past injuries to Jews grounds for inflicting upon Harvard today...
Like the caretaker of a freak that has been thrust into the limelight, what the administration wants for its W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is some quiet respect...