.... . For openers: Aptheker did not ask for the :ob. Yale asked him. In response to student demands during the 19 60s, Yale had created the college seminar program which made it possible for students to set up semester-long courses of their own choosing. An appointment to teach in *J» JPe°"Jlar orogram...

... in order to support those who have lost their positions as well as to protect others from losing theirs. In this issue we report on the case of Dr. Bertell Ollman, a Marx- ist, whose appointment as Chair of the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park...

... this letter. - Her- bert Aptheker, San Jose, CA. Dear Editors: I was shocked by your recent issue. . . . When I began to read [it], I discovered an interview with C. Vann Woodward in which he is permitted to present the ground for his opposing Herbert Aptheker’s appointment for a temporary...

... he was to stay for two decades, while Eric Wolf went from the same cohort to a series of research assistantships and visiting appoint- ments before "landing," first at Virginia, then (after a brief visit to Chicago) at Michigan. Others, like Stanley Diamond, took even longer, moving from...

... of business enterprises. Erik S. McDuffie is a jointly appointed assistant professor in the African American Studies and Research Program and in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are twentieth-century black women’s history...

... of the State Department bureaucracy or the Marines. The National City Bank, he claimed, was “constantly working to bring about a condition more suit- able and profitable for itself” by forcing the appointment of a financial adviser and a receiver general who dictated how government revenue was collected...

... of the state. The Communist Party was singled out for special repression, with a large number of its leaders either imprisoned or forced into exile by the Siguranta, the Romanian secret political police. Carol II appointed the highly anti-Semitic Romanian...

... always revered his radical and working-class roots. One of the few Murphys who was not only fluent in Gaelic but also in Yiddish, Joe was far more interested in discussing Marx and radical politics than he was in conducting CUNY’s administrative business. After his appointment in 1982 as CUNY...

... now. In September 1983, President Reagan signed legslation creating a commission to preside over the observance. The president hasn’t appointed a single one of the twenty-three commissioners, but he has appointed an executive di- rector: Roger Jepson, the senator from Iowa who was defeated...

... the regime was losing control of the streets. The Shah tried to reestablish order by declaring martial law in twelve cities —  Tehran, Karaj, Qom, Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashed, Abadan, Ahwaz, Qazvin, Kazerun, and Johram. In the early hours of September 8, he appointed General Gholam Ali...

... of expert testimony for a "left" legislative program. To effect this change, in early 1937, a new committee was appointed by the IPA—the "Committee on Methods of Economic Organization for Professional and White-Collar Workers" (9). This committee, however, was not intended to set up...

... columnists within Yale had sabotaged the political intent of the grant prompted Bass- it was reported-to up the ante and require that all future appointments paid out of his funds pass under his imprimatur. "The idea was to come up with a professor welcomed by Yale and OK'd by Bass," William F...

... was appointed the provincial coordinator on the status of women in 1975, Gene Errington was both the ombudswoman for the VSW and a member of the HRC. Kathleen Ruff, the chair of the Human Rights Branch from 1973 to 1978, had close ties to the VSW as a former president of the Status of Women Action Group...

... Library Center at Texas A&M University, Don W. Wilson, has found himself under congressional investigation within days after the announcement of his appointment. On the surface, Wilson’s appointment would seem like a surprise. After all, Wilson hadn’t exactly set the archival world on fire...

... appointments are relieved of the duties of permanent faculty, such as committee work and student advis- ing. While this is a welcome relief in some ways, it leaves many students in the cold, and for me it created a colder void in the satisfaction I was getting-or not getting-from teaching...

...: ”What‘s a Ronald Radosh?” However, informed of Radosh‘s (and Harvey Klehr‘s) most recent expose-The Amerasia Spy Case-and of Olin’s willingness to underwrite a position in GW‘s history department, Trachtenberg quickly endorsed the idea of an appoint- ment to the history faculty. The department...

... and Terrorism Prevention Act man- dates in section 1016 that the president appoint a “program manager” to work with a new Information Sharing Council to create policies and networks that will foster an “Information Sharing Environment” among “all appropriate Federal...

... around to selected colleagues in a pseudo-pub- lic way, by mobilizing powerful connections, by bringing pressure behind the scenes, by circulating misleading and frequently gar- bled materials, and by shamelessly lobbying appointment commit- tees. I cannot be alone in seeing a terrible irony...

....” 20 When the mayor appointed a Citizens Committee on Police Community Relations after rioting in 1966, he stocked it with allies like the then alderman Metcalfe and Judge James Parson. Tribune coverage noted only in an aside, in the final paragraph, that the civil rights organizations were...

... and massage parlors were able to reopen alongside them without controversy. In 2015 the NSW Liberal (conservative) government appointed a Select Committee on the Regulation of Brothels to report on “the possible reform options that address the social, health and planning challenges associated with legal...