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Bennett stings Harvard, prompts Bok response

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Secretary of Education William J. Bennett sharply criticizes the quality of education at Harvard University and other institutions in the text of a speech he plans to deliver at Harvard Friday. In reply, Harvard’s president, Derek Bok, Thursday charged Bennett with squandering “an opportunity to make a lasting contribution to educational reform” by engaging in uninformed “polemics.” The rare public dispute between two of the most powerful figures in education was touched off when Bok received a copy of the text of Bennett’s planned address. It prompted Bok to describe Bennett as shedding “more heat than light,” and to accuse him of failing to

Senate vote removes Claiborne from U.S. bench

WASHINGTON (AP) - Harry E. Claiborne was back in prison today, stripped of his judicial robes and his $78,700 salary by a Senate conviction that left some senators troubled over claims that he was the victim of a government vendetta. After a 10-day impeachment trial, the first in more than half a century, the Senate overwhelmingly pronoun-

Lafayette hoping third visit will land Japanese auto plant

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) For a third time Japanese automakers have visited Lafayette where officials are hoping it’s good news for a proposed auto plant. Six executives from Fuji Heavy Industries and Isuzu Motors spent all day Tuesday in Lafayette, Mayor James F. Riehle told the Indianapolis News. Lafayette; Springfield, Ill.; and Elizabethtown, Ky., are among those bidding for the joint venture by Fuji heavy industries and Isuzu motors. The factory will employ 1,600 workers when it opens in late 1989, producing 120,000 vehicles a year under Fuji’s nameplate, Subaru. An Isuzu spokesman said the companies will select a site for the project at the end of November or in December. Terre Haute also was in the run-

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pursue “important questions about the role of universities” in an “informed and sober manner.” The speech, which Bennett was invited to deliver as the major undergraduate address in connection with Harvard’s 350th anniversary, is his strongest and broadest critique to date on the state of higher education, accoreing to Marion Blakey, the department’s director of public affairs. *• In addition to accusing universities of failing to provide the sort of educational and moral grounding that should be expected of them, Bennett criticizes them as being excessively concerned with money. He also says the nation’s “prestigious, selective, leading universities” currently “show a liberal bias” that

ced Claiborne guilty Thursday of three of the four articles of impeachment the House unanimously approved July 22. Flanked by his lawyers, Claiborne sat with arms folded across his chest as the Senate convicted him of “high crimes and misdemeanors” by willfully cheating on his 1979 and 1980 income tax returns.

ning for the plant, but Mayor Pete Chalos said the Japanese officials didn’t make a third visit there. Guy Johnson, a spokesman for Lt. Gov. John M. Mutz, director of Indiana’s Department of Commerce, said Thursday, “We can’t comment on any of that stuff.” Johnson said Mutz “has given his word to this company he’s not going to talk about what’s happening in these negotiations.” Riehle said Tuesday’s vist from Fuji-Isuzu was similar to the trip Japanese officials made there July 14. Many of the same executives returned. “It was a pretty typical visit,” Riehle said. “They looked at the site and then looked around the community.” He said they were trying to get a feel for the flavor of the community. A consultant for Fuji-Isuzu made a

may “tilt” the beliefs of students to the left of center. The key focus of his remarks, however, which the department made public Thursday, concerns the quality of education being offered on the nation’s campuses. Bennett says in the speech: “I would fault Harvard and other universities for this: There’s not that much effort to see to it, systematically and devotedly, that real education occurs. Our students deserve better. They deserve a university’s real and sustained attention to their intellectual and their moral well-being. And they deserve a good general education.” “There are too many intellectual and educational casualties among the student body of Harvard,” he

The roll call votes on those two counts were 87-10 and 90-7, with Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, voting “present.” The Senate also concluded on an 89-8 vote, with Stevens again voting “present,” that Claiborne had “betrayed the trust of the people of the United States ... and thereby brought disrepute on the federal

second visit to Lafayette and Terre Haute in August. Chalos said, “If we can’t get Fuji, I hope it goes to Lafayette.” Riehle expressed guarded optimism about the third trip to Lafayette. “I always feel pretty good when a company looks at our community,” Riehle said.

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says. “Some people don’t get educated here too many for the greatest university in the country.” Bennett, who is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, also faulted colleges and universities as failing to provide their students with a “moral education,” although he said many of them “freely dispense guidance to those beyond their walls.” Bok said: “Secretary Bennett’s speech raises important questions about the role of universities and the education they offer. Instead of pursuing these questions in an informed and sober manner, however, he has followed his penchant for delivering highly publicized polemics against educational practices which he has not studied in detail and policies with

courts and the administration of justice.” But senators acquitted him of Article 111, which said his 1984 criminal conviction on two counts of tax evasion was “an independent and sufficient basis for his removal from office.” The vote was 46-17, with 35 senators voting “present.” Claiborne’s battle to clear his

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which he happens to disagree. In doing so, he sheds more heat than light and squanders an opportunity to make a lasting contribution to educational reform.” Margery Heffron, associate director of news and public affairs at Harvard, said Bok intended to speak in reply to Bennett after the secretary’s address Friday, which will be zefore an audience of about 1,200. In his address, Bennett says the wealth of institutions of higher education has been increasing and that gross national spending on higher education in the country has risen, in constant 1985-86 dollars, from sl2 billion in 1950 to over SIOO billion today.

name was lost, however, on the very first roll call because a guilty verdict on a single article of impeachment is sufficient for conviction. In that instant, the Senate effectively removed Claiborne from the federal bench and took away his salary, which he had been collecting while serving a two-year prison sentence in Alabama-

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