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...TOOK LOCAL POLICE and state troopers less than an hour to clear University Hall of student protesters in 1969, battering heads with billyclubs, choking lungs with tear gas, and knocking Timothy H.S. Venn '72 from his wheelchair onto the concrete. It took the Faculty less than one day to agree to set up a disciplinary body called the Committee of Fifteen, later the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), to punish these student demonstrators. It took less than two months for the Committee of Fifteen to penalize 135 students, forcing 16 to leave the University--many for good...
...Venn is the course's real magic. From the big publishing names she corrals--this year John Updike '54 and Helen Mayer, president of Dell publishing, will attend the program, to name a few--to her personal interest in getting students placed in fields of their choice, Venn insures that students won't regret the $750 tuition...
...look at the way students in the course spend their days suggests just how much Venn packs into six weeks. Within seven days students will meet with university press editors, manuscript editors, authors and publishers. They will learn how to copy edit, proofread, do picture research and book design...
...next Thursday Venn hopes to have taught students how to write a good rejection letter. "Is there anything more difficult to write than a rejection letter?" the diminuitive Venn asked last week...
...course has changed somewhat over the years. Originally emphasizing publishing house work, Venn now splits the six-week session between magazine and book publishing. Recently she has added helpings in publishing economics to the traditionally more literary offerings of instruction...