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...Ford Foundation does not renew the grant, or if the Board Trustees forces Dean Morse to refuse it, the Law School will be crippled. As one Law professor put it, "It would be much worse if the Ford grant were cut off than if we'd never gotten it in the first place. It'd be difficult to have to give up the extra secretaries, the xerox machines, to think back after we've expanded so much." More importantly, it would be difficult to reconstruct the creative dialogue without the funds to keep attracting top-notch teachers...
This time, however, the censorship has gotten very little notice. The Mississippian reported the event only by printing a letter to the editor. More significantly, the University has learned how to handle such cased more delicately. Tettleson has cancelled Amaris's graduate art seminar for the rest of the year, and may even close the faculty art show to avoid having to deal further with the censorship issue...
Harrington is clearly discouraged. "We are all just getting tired," he explains. "It used to be exciting to fight for clear-cut rights, but things have gotten to be more tiring then exciting...
...school, tells a visitor that young boys who live at Perkins do the same things as the students at any other boarding school -- including playing practical jokes. One night, a group of boys in a dormitory set up a trap for one of their mates who had gotten out of bed to use the bathroom. While he was out, the boys built a precariously high stack of soda bottles in the entrance of the room. The boy returned, his hand gliding against the wall for guidance; he crashed into the bottles and woke up everyone in the dorm...
...also had undeniable merits. Seltzer had succeeded in opening the Loeb to students who might never have gotten involved. He had, regardless of his apparent or real motives, introduced academic structure to production work, and reversed the positions of the in-group and the out-group. Now the only exiles were disgruntled elders...