Word: offing
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The committee, chaired by Robert J. Kiely, professor of English, has talked extensively wi'h students since it began meeting last March. "We believe we have consulted 30 to 40 per cent of the undergraduate English concentrators, either at the House or the committee level," Bloomfield said.
Joseph A. Rhodes Jr. yesterday assailed President Nixon for his treatment of the Commission on Campus Unrest, charging that Nixon's recent letter on the Commission's findings is "just another maneuver."
"The letter really doesn't say much about the substance of our report," said Rhodes, a Junior Fellow at Harvard and member of the Commission. "We urged the President to deal with the fundamental issues in a way that will be a reconciling force... The campaign was his basic statement...
In a letter dated Dec. 10 to William W. Scranton, chairman of the Commission, Nixon stated that responsibility for maintaining order on campus "rests squarely with the members of the academic community themselves."
The Commission's report, released last September, had put much of the blame for campus violence and national polarization on the Administration. It also termed the divisions in America "as deep as any since the Civil War."