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...WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I.--"The state of the University is healthy," Brown University President Vartan Gregorian proclaimed yesterday before robe-clad faculty and less formally dressed students at The First Baptist Meeting House in America...
Brown University President Vartan Gregorian has called U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss in Moscow and the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to pressure Moscow for a full-scale investigation...
Because public television is blandly virtuous and soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
Hackney has other supporters. Among them is former rival and Brown University president Vartan Gregorian, who was passed over for the Penn presidency in favor of Hackney in 1980. Says he: "Sheldon Hackney has a judicious, moderate temperament -- and you need somebody who is an umpire" to run the NEH. Gregorian himself turned down the appointment...
After a fraternity party incident involving a handgun, Brown University police officials are asking Brown President Vartan Gregorian today to allow them to be deputized so they may carry firearms...