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Faculty members disagree about what conflicts occur when they take-on responsibilities beyond the walls of Harvard. Frederick Ausubel, associate professor of Biology and a consultant for the nine-month-old Biotechnica, Inc. says a potential conflict of spirit can occur. "Can one devote all that much time to creative...
Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition apologizing to McNamara for the disruption, still and all, the demonstration marked the birth of a third Harvard, a short-lived, hot-burning era that lasted until 1972 or thereabouts but whose effects linger still. This Harvard closed down spring after spring as students...
MICHIGAN. Friends said that he was simply exhausted after nearly 14 years of trying to arrest the disintegration of his state's automobile-oriented economy. William Milliken, 60, admitted that Michigan's dismal fiscal condition influenced his decision to "run for cover" instead of for office this year...
WISCONSIN. A witty, flamboyant former college professor who won office in an upset four years ago, Lee Dreyfus, 55, decided not to run again even though he was the odds-on favorite for reelection. Dreyfus, whose trademark is a red vest, cited "personal reasons" and constant battles with the Democratic...
...society respects the autonomy of academic institutions because it assumes that they will devote themselves to the academic tasks that they were established to pursue. This does not mean that universities should refrain from trying to influence the outside world. It does mean that they should exert an influence by...