Trustees Are Getting Younger
Youths and young alumni are joining college boards across the nation. At Princeton two 22 and 23 year olds proposed an antiwar statement, drawing mixed reactions as boards adapt to a new generation of trustees.
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Dee Wedemeyer
Associated Press
Princeton University
Brent Henry
Richard Cass
University
Goddard College
Vermont
Princeton
Henry
Vanderbilt
Nancy Manning
University of Portland
Oregon
Peter W. Billings, Jr
Brown University
Billings
U.S. Senate
Youth trustees bridge campus generation gap
Ex officio University of Wyoming and Yale style boards feature young members. Walter Marcus says fresh trustees bring youth perspective while old guard acknowledge the times. At Connecticut campus a question on meaning signals cultural shifts.
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Hoke MacMillan
University of Wyoming
Laramie
MacMillan
University of Connecticut
Walter Marcus
Marcus
Revolt in Graduate Education Prompts Reform Calls
A report by graduate students and deans urges reforms to reduce rigidity in departments, expand interdisciplinary programs, and create a new PhD-like degree for college teachers. It cites broad dissatisfaction, teaching burdens on grads, and calls for broader faculty roles and stronger oversight.
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American Political Science Assn
Chronicle of Higher Education
Council of Graduate Schools
Yale
Herbert Weisinger
State University of New York At
Stony Brook
China Hails American Awakening and Shift to Violence
Peking’s New China News Agency claims the 1960s brought a mass awakening in the United States. It says Afro Americans, workers and students rejected nonviolence, embracing revolutionary violence to oppose imperialism and U.S. domestic oppression.
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Tokyo
China
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
New China
U.S
Massive Asia cattle fair lists tens of thousands of beasts
In Sonepur India officials announced the 1969 cattle fair drew about 40 000 bullocks 1 300 goats and 697 elephants marking Asia s largest livestock market event with traders from many regions.
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Sonepur
India
Asia
High Cost of Entertaining Hits New York City
Public Events Commissioner John Bud Palmer said entertaining visiting dignitaries costs forced a shift to modest meetings and tea. The department exceeded its 1969 budget by 8,000 dollars, while parade cost estimates rose and larger state dinners were held at museums for leaders like the Shah of Iran and Prime Minister Golda Meir.
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Steven Hughes
University of Maine
Jean-Louis d’Heilly
City University of New York
State Capitol
New York City
John V. Lindsay
d’Heilly
New York
John “Bud” Palmer
Palmer
City Hall
Iran
Museum of Natural History
Golda Meir
Brooklyn Museum
Deserters Find Haven in Sweden, 255 U.S. GIs Gone
Washington corrected a record to show 185 deserters in Sweden, later revised to 255 total GIs who left the United States without permission. 70 have returned, Sweden now ranks as the top haven besides Canada, with 576 deserters living there and 88 in Mexico. Deserter numbers rise across the Army and Marine Corps. 1,403 GIs have deserted since July 1, 1966.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Sweden
Canada
U.S
Mexico
Army
Marine Corps
Pentagon
Objections Heard Athens Casino Closes After Six Months
The Alexander club, Athens only casino, shut after six months of operation. Open to foreigners only, it drew American gamblers flown from California. Greek officials did not renew its permit amid negative press, while two other Greek casinos remain abroad under a German company.
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Athens
UPI
Alexander Club
California
Greece
Corfu
Rhodes
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