Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lingering combat. Last week University of Michigan President Robben Fleming personally launched a two-day campus teach-in at Ann Arbor with a sharp antiwar speech. Rutgers President Mason W. Gross, who also heads the American Council on Education, said that his university will demonstrate that it is "a teacher and guardian of civilized values" by suspending normal classes on Moratorium Day to conduct a campus-wide dialogue...
Perhaps the opening week's most promising premiere is Room 222 (ABC), in which Lloyd Haynes plays a black Mr. Novak, a masterful and empathic teacher of history in an urban high school. Supporting characters include an iconoclastic Jewish principal (Michael Constantine) who openly hates PTA meetings, and a stereotypical, wide-eyed, white apprentice teacher (Karen Valentine) capable of telling Haynes, "I think it's so significant that you're colored." Except for such sappy moments, Room 222 may prove to be more good-humoredly wise on the problems of school prejudice and board-of-education bureaucracy...
...many-sided troubles of the university. Professor Adam B. Ulam argues that the university has overextended itself and should leave society alone. Professor H. Stuart Hughes writes that the university should stop playing politics. Professor Samuel P. Huntington adds a pessimistic prognosis on the further decline of student-teacher relations. Ten other Harvard teachers submit briefer remarks on the fad for "relevance" in the curriculum. Most express fears that political activism on campus may compromise scholarly values and impartial inquiry. It is disturbing to find so many faculty disturbed...
...Each teacher naturally believes in the relevance of his own discipline, but he worries at times. Speaking of the smaller departments, Professor of German Jack M. Stein wonders: "Is there not then a danger that these will become even smaller and the larger ones even larger?" Professor Samuel P. Huntington suggests that the once dominant academic culture is being supplanted at Harvard by a new "political-activist" counter-culture...
Seltzer, known to most Harvard students as the teacher of Gen Ed courses in drama, is also the most prominent Loob actor and a tutor in Adams House...