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Died. Tim Buckley, 28, folk balladeer of the late '60s; of an apparent heart attack; in his Santa Monica, Calif., home. Buckley's sensitive lyrics (Goodbye and Hello) and ragged, mother-me looks earned him adulation beginning with his first album in 1966, but his shift to jazzier, more experimental forms cut sharply into his popularity and income...
Although the committee has no other members yet. Heimert says he and his colleagues will discuss whether the government "undermined the operation of the private university" with the "leverage" of the Buckley amendment...
Minority groups were admitted in the same percentages in the class of 1975 as in previous classes. Only one American Indian (from Wyoming) came to Harvard in 1971, and none came to Radcliffe. The sons of the presidents of Columbia and Yale both entered in the class William Buckley's son was admitted, but went to Yale instead. Though Harvard applications declined substantially (from 8,000 in 1970 to 6,850 in 1971), the class was the largest ever--larger even than the classes of 1976 and 77. Fifty-six per cent of the Harvard class and 33 per cent...
...problem with the Buckley amendment was, according to an outspoken group of Harvard faculty members, that students' access to their previously confidential student files would bring an end to frank, straightforward recommendations and evaluations...
Complaints about ambiguities and weaknesses in the language of the law were voiced loudly enough to prompt Congressional additions to what became the Pell-Buckley amendment, which exempted documents written before September, 1974, from student access. Harvard's efforts to limit the effect of the legislation included the recommendation from Daniel Steiner '54, that all confidential admission materials be placed in escrow and this prompted student protest...