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...Faculty also agreed to return to the wording of the June 9 interim resolution, which listed the central functions of the University as "learning, teaching, research, and scholarship"-mention of which were deliberately left out of the present resolution by the CRR because of widespread disagreement...
Smithies said last night that the harassing of Dean May last November, and the statements released by the Interim Committee on Rights and Responsibilities when it disciplined the students involved, suggested that such an explicit provision is needed. "I wouldn't put it in if I didn't think there are a lot of professors concerned about this sort of thing." Smithies said...
...cross every scientific t" When he was advised that color TV sets and microwave ovens are a potentially dangerous source of radiation, Johnson quickly alerted the public, then helped to write strict new radiation standards. To combat black lung disease, which now afflicts about 100,000 miners, he established interim limits on the amount of airborne coal dust permitted in a mine shaft, until Congress finally set permanent standards last year...
...Interim has lasted since September. Through the auspices of an Interim Committee, we have been exercising our Interim rights and bearing the (discounted) weight of our Interim responsibilities. Dining Hall doorways have sprouted Interim reports. But it's March. The snow is melting, leaves are sprouting, committees are disbanding (or just fading away), dogs are in heat on the Lars Anderson Bridge, and this year ending the Interim will be one of the rites (and responsibilities) of Spring...
Perhaps the Interim is just a state of mind, that will die when we all stop believing in it, like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan. Adherents of this view have organized themselves through a voting scheme called Schizophrenic Representation (in which a member of each campus fringe group votes for himself five times-in order of preference) into a Committee for a Permanent Interim, or the Permanent Interim Committee. At their first meeting last week in Holyoke Center, Lowell Lec, and Burr A and B, the committee passed a resolution saying unanimously that they believed in the Interim, that three...