Article

Around the Ivies

June 1987
Article
Around the Ivies
June 1987

• Boston University President John Silber denounced a proposal to distribute safersex kits, calling the idea "immoral, with no merit whatsoever."

• John Shad, outgoing chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has donated the lion's share of the $30 million needed to support an ethics program at the Harvard Business School.

• Princeton's board of trustees has officially changed five gender-specific words in the school's alma mater.

• A New York state supreme court judge has endorsed a compromise that allows activists to build a "symbolic shanty" at approved locations on the Cornell campus.

• Princeton named University of Michigan President Harold Tafler Shapiro as the successor to President William Bowen.

• Middlebury College has joined Bowdoin and Bates in dropping the admission requirement for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Critics of the test say it is biased against women and minorities. Dartmouth has no plans to drop the SAT, according to Richard Jaeger '59, director of admissions at the College. He said the test is "still a useful tool when used reasonably along with other things."

• Stanford University recently launched the largest fundraising campaign in the history of higher education. Between now and 1991, the university hopes to raise $1.4 billion.

• Readers of Perspective, a paper published by the Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club, received a free condom inside their April issue. The newspaper's staffers glued condoms to a full-page ad taken out by the manufacturer to spotlight the problem of AIDS. The company paid for the ad and the condoms.

• In a survey of 485 college presidents, the five most highly regarded presidents were the Reverend Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame; Derek Bok of Harvard; the Reverend Timothy Healy. of Georgetown; William C. Friday, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina; and Hanna Gray of the University of Chicago.

• Twenty Brown University students, including former First Daughter Amy Carter, were placed on probation for disrupting a trustee meeting with a protest against the university's holdings in South Africa.

Women of Dartmouth: The Women's Studies Program is producing a video about coeducation at Dartmouth, and they need help. Production manager Nancy Wasserman '77 would like alumni to send still photographs, diaries, films or anything else that might he pertinent to the topic. Send submissions to Video on Coeducation, Women's Studies Program, HB 6038, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755. A special file has been opened in Baker Library's photo record department to ensure safekeeping. The video, which has the working title From Cohogs to Coeds: Coeducation at Dartmouth, is funded in part by grants from the Hewlett Foundation and the Ford Foundation.