Word: months
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Silber is fighting hard to win his biggest confrontation yet. Next month he will preside over a faculty assembly that will debate a resolution calling for his dismissal. Twenty-five professors are active in a committee working to oust him, and the student forum of the college of liberal arts voted recently to demand that he be fired. Six-hundred professors from M I T, Harvard, and other Boston-area universities have signed a petition calling for Silber's removal and have pledged to withhold administrative courtesies--such as advice on promotions--from B.U. as long as he is president...
Most trustees disagree, and there appears to be strong support on the board for Silber. Just last month the trustees--incensed at what they considered inaccurate and biased reporting about the five professors facing disciplinary proceedings--bought full-page advertisements in The Boston Globe and Boston Herald-American to "set the record straight" and declare their "full confidence" in Silber. The ads reportedly cost...
...Globe's inventory--usually about a month's worth of paper--dropped drastically, Giuggio said. "We were down to about a week's worth of paper," he added...
Once the boundary is drawn, be it next month or next year, Harvard should stick to it religiously, not committing the occasional infractions that have marked the current agreement...
Meanwhile, across the continent, a judge has just given a boost to one group of testing reformers. In San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham last month ruled that California could not use the common Stanford-Binet IQ test to screen pupils for placement in a special program for the "educable mentally retarded." California's EMR program is 25% black, although blacks make up only 10% of the statewide school population. Even under the improbable assumption that black children have 50% more mental retardation than white children, said Peckham, the EMR enrollment pattern had just one chance...