San Francisco Panel Urges Crime Focus Over Morality
A 28 member San Francisco committee urges police to prioritize violent crime and stop enforcing moral offenses like prostitution pornography homosexuality and gambling. Police Chief Nelder calls the report defeatist while noting it funds from Justice Department and Ford Foundation.
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San Francisco
Alfred Nelder
Joseph Alioto
Board of Supervisors
U.S. Justice Department
Ford Foundation
EPA shows sharp rise Lead particles in air increase in 3 cities
The EPA reports a preliminary two year study 1968 69 finds lead particle levels rose up to 64 percent in Pasadena 35.6 percent in a Philadelphia mixed zone and 32 percent in a Cincinnati commercial area from 1961 62 levels. Lead likely from gasoline while other particulates fell. California standard 1.5 micrograms per cubic meter. All LA sites exceeded, four Philadelphia sites and one Cincinnati site above the standard. Chicago Houston and New York results to come this summer.
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U.S
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Environmental Protection Agency
Pasadena
Calif
California State Health Department
Chicago
Houston
New York
Unemployment Rises to 6.2 Percent as Prices Climb
The May jobless rate reached 6.2 percent matching last December, with wholesale prices up four tenths due to steel and gasoline. Labor data show gains in total employment and earnings, while long term unemployment and disparities by race and occupation draw attention to ongoing economic strain under President Nixon.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Lawrence F. O’brien
White House
Herbert Stein
Council of Economic Advisers
General Motors
Stein
Breau
Bureau
SIU hires executive recruiter for chancellor search
SIU begins a year long search for a Carbondale campus chancellor and hires Richard Quaintance and Associates at 300 dollars a day with a 15000 dollar spending cap. A 2000 dollar pre search survey is paid up front and a 4000 dollar completion fee is due on hiring. The contract includes weekly bills and potential deductions from the completion fee if the search exceeds 30 days.
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Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
SIU
Richard Quaintance
Quaintance
Elliott
SIU hires Quaintance to aid chancellor search at Carbondale
Richard Quaintance, 44, eight months old firm founder, was hired by the SIU Board of Trustees to assist in selecting a Carbondale campus chancellor. He previously led recruiting at Spencer Stuart and Associates, Chicago, and will work with faculty and students in the search as SIU moves toward greater campus autonomy and possible separate campus leadership.
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Richard Quaintance
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
Carbondale
Spencer Stuart and Associates
Chicago
Spencer Stuart
Quaintance
Robert G. Layer
Layer
SIU
Elliott
Non Governance
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Edwardsville
Chicago Business Consultants
SIU appoints Quaintance as Carbondale chancellor search proceeds
Quaintance, formerly with Spencer Stuart and Associates, begins campus familiarization as part of a pre search survey for SIU. Hiring was approved by the SIU board executive committee led by Elliott, with Dr. Martin Van Brown and William Allen as remaining members.
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SIU
Martin van Brown
Carbondale
William Allen
Bloomington
Elliott
Brown
Allen
Robert W. MacVicar
Ore= State University
Corvallis
Willis Malone
Mac
Nixon outlines doubling coal to gas research funding
President Nixon announced new programs to boost energy supplies, highlighting offshore oil geothermal power oil shale coal gasification and long term atomic plant expansion. He sought supplemental appropriations added to the next fiscal budget to accelerate these efforts and doubled federal spending on coal to gas conversion studies.
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Nixon
Congress
Colleges urge ROTC changes in nationwide education groups plan
Six national higher education associations call for broad reforms to ROTC including renaming the program to Army Navy and Air Force Officer Education Programs and expanding it to more minority‑majority schools. Recommendations cover academic credit, instructors with advanced degrees, and shared accountability to academics and military leadership.
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Washington
Reserve Officer Training Corps
Army
Navy
Association of State Colleges and Universities
American Council of Education
The
Association of American College
Association of American Universities
National Association For Equal Opportunity In Higher Education
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
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