Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regents gave themselves veto power over faculty tenure appointments. Later they tried to soothe irked professors by vowing that "no political tests shall ever be considered" in faculty hiring and promotion. But last month, despite that vow, the regents voted to fire Professor Davis-a Brandeis Phi Beta Kappa, a protegee of New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse and a onetime Black Panther-because she is, by her own admission, a member of the Communist Party. For the moment, she is being allowed to give non-credit lectures pending the outcome of her appeal to a faculty committee on privilege...
Hitting His Peak. Counsilman's counsel paid off. "I think the guys on the team liked me right away," says Mark, "and they avoided talking about the Olympics." Mark moved into a dormitory with George Smith, another Olympian, pledged Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, earned A's for attitude as well as in his studies. "It was just a matter of growing up," says Counsilman. "College has given him the chance to mingle with contemporaries for the first time, and he has turned out to be one of the most popular guys on the team...
...prodded Brown University into some of the liveliest academic reforms in the U.S. He did it by sheer intelligence, without manhandling a single dean. Last month Magaziner delivered the senior class valedictory, collected his magna cum laude degree in an interdisciplinary program called Human Studies, twirled his Phi Beta Kappa key and looked ahead to two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Brown itself looked ahead to sweeping curriculum changes that might never have occurred without Magaziner...
...Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe elected the following 19 girls yesterday: Joan C. Biella, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures; Leslie M. Crane, History; Lucy A. Bergson, English; Ruth Wells Chapman, History and Literature; Susan Trafton Edmunds, Classics; Frances Toby Shachat, Biology; Deborah Fiedler, History and Literature; Ruth A. Ryan, Chemistry; Brenda Sue Baker, Applied Mathematics; Patricia E. Moyer, Chemistry; Kathleen A. Birk, Sanskrit and Indian Studies; Joanna F. Seltzer, Social Studies; Marie I. Montamat, History; Dale Rosen, Social Studies; Ronnie E. Feuerstein, Government; Arden Aibel, Social Relations; Elizabeth S. Gimbel, English; Karen Johnson Train, English; Sarah Campbell...
...orator at yesterday's Phi Beta Kappa exercises, Sen. Eugene McCarthy searched for the causes of unrest in the colleges, and found that many of them lie deep in 1969 America...