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...former Roman Catholic nun and onetime Illinois farm girl run Manhattan's city-owned Hunter College -and cope with faculty hostility, student unrest, tight budgets and urban politics? Not according to Russell Miller, a math teacher and chairman of the teachers union at Hunter. When Jacqueline Grennan Wexler was appointed president last month, he said: "She will be dropped into a sea of administrative difficulties, and I predict that she will drown...
...This week, undaunted by the opposition of some faculty members to her appointment, Mrs. Wexler will take office-and she has no doubts about her ability to swim in that sea. "It seems to me," she says, "that one has always to ask the question of whether he is willing to put his activity where his social convictions are, and mine are in this kind of place...
...vows and Rome's approval to secularize the college. Last June she left Webster as Miss Jacqueline Grennan and became vice president of New York's Academy for Educational Development, where she studied ways to expand independent study in U.S. colleges. She also married Paul J. Wexler, the Jewish president of a mail-order recording company, in a Catholic ceremony at which a rabbi assisted...
...cold steel-like colors to add to the cauchemar feeling of the film. Costa-Garvas' direction is lickety-split and sometimes brilliant (his groupings of the pacifist heroes to show simultane-ously their solidarity, strength and fear; the demonstration scenes, which accomplish effortlessly what Haskell Wexler wasted a whole film on in Medium Cool...
MEDIUM COOL. Using contemporary politics for a backdrop, and making the most of a cast of unknowns, Writer-Director Haskell Wexler explodes with a film that is dynamite...