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...sources of funding and sponsorship, and to indicate whether the sponsor has been granted a right of pre-publication review. A scholar, especially when he is also a teacher, has a commitment to openness and honesty in his relation with readers and students. Concealment deprives them of an important element in evaluating research; selective concealment is a form of deception. Teaching and scholarship require trust; trust, in turn, requires openness...
This final element is, I think, the crucial one: graduate student activism...
...move which came five days after most College classes stopped meeting to observe the reading period, the Faculty Council unanimously endorsed a statement which cited "the element of coercion that may be involved" when classes meet at the shantytown and calls such moves "unacceptable," said Faculty Council Secretary John R. Marquand...
...wish only to add a personal thought about the difficulty of missionary work. It is natural to want to begin an interaction with small talk. There is nothing inherently deceptive or insincere about this element of social relations. Whether in a job interview or setting up a date, chit-chat is a comfortable way to say that you are a real person, someone with common as well as unique characteristics, and to allow the other person the same opportunity. Just how much superficiality each of us needs or can tolerate may vary; sometimes we may dispense with it all together...
...people who work for him are now paying huge dividends. Every week Cabinet officers, agency heads, staff assistants, clerks and G.I.s, wherever they may be, take it on the chin for the chief and seem to love it. That trust almost more than any other thing may be the element that holds Reagan's Government together and keeps it on the march even as the President's power begins to wane in the second term...