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Robert G. Gardner '48, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, is fond of describing Vis Stud as a "small department with limited resources." The serious extent of these limitations was made aware to its faculty members Wednesday, as they voted, 9-1, to support a plan of fundamental reorganization in the department including opening admission to all undergraduates...
Under the new guidelines, Vis Stud concentrators will no longer be required to follow the honors program of courses, and instead, be allowed to replace junior and senior tutorials with other courses offered within the department...
...soon as the General Assembly reconvened last week, black African and Arab spokesmen launched a blistering counterattack. Dahomey's Ambassador Tiamiou Adjibade-currently chairman of the U.N.'s African group-blasted Moynihan for "a deliberately provocative act vis-à-vis President Amin and an unfriendly act toward the O.A.U. If Mr. Moynihan wishes to base his strategy in the U.N. on irreverence, flippancy and irresponsibility, let him know right now that the African group will not allow itself to be intimidated...
What's a Nice Boy Like You Doing in the Bushes is Wolff's daily chronicle of his two years in the minors. It's one of those nice, easy-to-read, amusing sports biographies that doesn't try to define baseball vis-a-vis life...
This fear of arousing antagonism is echoed in Harrington's stand vis-a-vis the trade unions While indicating his wariness of "left-wing outside-agitator-inspired wildcats," he concedes that there are instances, for example in the Lordstown auto plants, of genuine rank-and-file worker disenchantment with union leadership and a real desire on the part of workers to participate in the organization of the work process. "And I supported that strike," Harrington says. "But we're in a tough position. It's the same thing in New York, where the civil servants crossed the teachers' picket lines...