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Broyles will bring a sharply different editorial personality to Newsweek. In a memo announcing the appointment, Graham praised his "proven creativity in editorial direction ... and his innovation in editing and graphics." Graham's description may be apt. Colleagues depict Broyles as an editor with panache, drive and moxie. He is no child of the counterculture. A student-body president at Rice University and a Marine Corps combat officer in Viet Nam, he is more middle of the road in his politics than in his aggressive editing instincts. In 1972 he became editor of the fledgling Texas Monthly and helped...
About a month ago, one Law School professor circulated a memo claiming that there was a bitter split among faculty members. According to the professor, Charles R. Nesson '60, associate dean of the school, the faculty has been divided into a "right" and a "left" camp throughout the past decade. The faculty division had become so deep. Nesson charged, that it led professors to engage in "Villification of the opposition, name-calling, backstabbing and character assassination...
Nesson's Law School colleagues do not agree on this point, and the faculty began consideration of the report last month. The faculty did, however, discuss Nesson's memo at one of its weekly meetings...
Probably the most controversial part of Nesson's memo is his characterization of the Law School during the sixties. "When I came here in 1966," he says, "the atmosphere of the school was stifling...
Whatever the effects of the current disagreement, the future may bring the Law faculty closer to reconciliation. Nesson describes the faculty's discussion on his memo as "satisfactory," and one law professor says the very fact that people are talking about the issue shows the atmosphere is less tense. "We're on the road to reconciliation." Nesson says. But as another faculty member notes. "It's hard to tell how long the road will...