Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...issue. In California, though, the combatants are so angry that few ponder the real problem: the role of today's university. "Nearly all our troubles go back to one basic difficulty," says U.C.L.A. Chancellor Charles Young. "There is no consensus as to what the university is, what its function is, and in what its importance to society consists." Until there is, universities and politicians will play politics...
...Oklahoma! introduced the idea of integrating songs and dances into a play. Up until that time, musicals were generally silly comedies or melodramas in which musical numbers, often irrelevant to the dramatized action, were used to bridge scenes. Richard Rodgers and his collaborators proved that these numbers could actually function as part of the play itself-enhancing characterizations, moving along the action, adding to dramatic impact and so forth. This was a revolutionary innovation, and, once Oklahoma! showed that the new form would pay off at the box-office, it became the standard for all musicals to follow...
...reconcile into one program the people who believe Cliffics do not want advice, and those who believe they want it whether they think they do or not? Those who believe good counseling is a "function of numbers," and those who think it is not? Those who see advisors as friends and confessors, and those who see them as road-signs in Harvard's maze of opportunities...
William G. Perry '35, director of the Burcan of Study Counsel, says that these views do not represent a difference of opinion, but a "difference of function." "The problem is one of equilibrium," he says. "There has to be a balance between respect for freshman independence and the right of everyone to advice when she wants it and needs...
...general temper of the Council is against simple acquiescence with Dunlop's request. The fact is that we just do not understand the committee's function well enough to explain it to students considering running," Allen said...