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...Oswald Tippo, former chancellor and provost of UMASS/Amherst, said he believed the letter to be accurate. "Dukakis has a wretched record as far as public institutions are concerned," he said. Tippo said he thought many of Dukakis' opponents would be reluctant to speak out because, "they have to go to the governor for their budgets...
That's the compromise decision Tuesday by University of Massachusetts chancellor Oswald Tippo to resolve a controversy over the type of lettuce being served in dining halls on the Amherst campus...
...Business. When U. Mass. Provost (now Chancellor) Oswald Tippo approached him about heading the ed school, Allen boldly "asked for everything." To his shock, he got virtual carte blanche−and has used it with characteristic gusto. Draping his portly form in custom-tailored African shirts and guzzling low-calorie colas, Dean Allen first set out to whip up a graduate school. Foundations and the Federal Government agreed with his goal, came up with nearly $4,000,000. Allen raised faculty salaries to as much as $33,000 a year, signed on historians and economists as well as education professors...
...Allen has retained the overall support of Chancellor Tippo, but he admits he has made some mistakes and expects to make more. He is convinced that taking risks is the only way to change the school, and most of his faculty agree. "Dwight Allen promises more than he can deliver," sighs one professor, "but he always delivers more than you expect...
...Berkeley as a finer all-round school on the graduate level than Harvard. Massachusetts now pays full professors an average $17,300-and President John Lederle is an aggressive raider of private-university faculties. Among his recent catches: University of Chicago Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone, N.Y.U. Botanist Oswald Tippo, Yale Physicist Robert Gluckstern and lohns Hopkins Astrophysicist John D. Strong, who brought $1,000,000 in equipment with him. "We're not trying to create an Ivy League college or a Big Ten here," says Lederle. "We'll take the best of both and do better...