Word: wexler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lobbying by the oil industry, which wants good U.S. relations with the Arabs, despite his talk about "evenhandedness," has not really turned the Government to a new course. For this, he has good reasons and widespread support; opinion polls have consistently shown strong backing for Israel. Says Dr. William Wexler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and one of the leaders whom Pompidou refused to see in New York: "Mr. Nixon's policy toward Israel is very much in line with Jewish desires. In this case, it's all a matter of what...
...page 55). Five years ago, the nation's most publicized advocates of convent renewal were Sister Jacqueline Grennan of Missouri's Webster College and Sister Charles Borromeo Muckinhern of St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. Both have since left the religious life. Sister Jacqueline is now Mrs. Paul Wexler and the new president of Manhattan's Hunter College...
...While purists fret about academic standards, Mrs. Wexler firmly favors an open admissions policy at urban public colleges: "You can't discriminate on 'prior preparation' grounds any more than on economic grounds." She feels that "our country is one human family" that ought to teach the poor and culturally deprived as eagerly as it does the deaf or blind. By "culturally deprived," she means not only Negroes and Puerto Ricans but also whites who are deprived of the opportunity to learn about non-Western culture...
...Tall Order. Mrs. Wexler expects conflict at Hunter when the city's plan for open admissions is carried out next fall. But her strategy for dealing with disputes is well defined: "One must never resort to force, psychic or otherwise." Not that she recoils from arguing with her critics. But even though she may consider a certain problem to be a moral issue, she says, "I'll never tell a man he's immoral, because I don't know his conscience...
...Though Mrs. Wexler wants more student participation in decision making, she is not about to let any power group take over. "The New England town model of governance is gross naivete, ineffectual and restrictive of freedom. The vote of the majority cannot interfere with the rights of any individual." As for drugs on campus, Mrs. Wexler disapproves but advocates more scientific investigation and saner drug laws. "If we lie to the young in order to discourage them, it's asking the credibility gap to become a gulf...