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Item Alternative Budgetary Options and Their Consequences(1969-03-03) Bloustein, Edward J."This memorandum is intended to provide the faculty and student body with the factual background necessary to advise with me concerning the budget for 1969-70 which I must recommend to the board of trustees at their meeting on April 17-18, 1969."Item Answers to Questionnaire on Problems of Communication(1968-05-22) Bloustein, Edward J.Bennington's Day of Self-StudyItem Bennington Self-Study Committee Appointment(1968-03-29) Bloustein, Edward J.Item The Current Status of our Discussion Thing(1969-04-16) Bloustein, Edward J."Thus, we are presently launched on a discussion of fundamental educational changes at this College. Most of us have the :feeling that such changes are long overdue, even though we disagree about what they should be. We've discussed and discussed our differences; now we must attempt to accommodate them and take action to make the college a more sound and fulfilling educational community."Item The Day of Self-Study(1968-05-17) Bloustein, Edward J."As you all know by this time, the Day of Self-Study is scheduled for the afternoon of May 27 and the morning of May 28, when, as a result of action by the Faculty, all classes will be cancelled. The success of the Day of Self-Study depends vitally upon the preparatory work which is presently being undertaken by 6 "task forces,'' the subject areas and leadership of which were recently announced. The purpose of this memorandum is to urge you al I to join in the work of one or another of the "task forces 11 and to thereby personally participate in what could be a substantial regenerative force in the community."Item Enforcement of Parking Regulations(1968-11-20) Bloustein, Edward J.Item Faculty Resolution Regarding Bennington College Community Government(1968-06-12) Bloustein, Edward J.Item Grant Proposal to the Charles A. Frueauff Foundation(1971-04-01) Bloustein, Edward J.; Landis, Kendall"A naming grant of $15,000 is being sought to enlarge the Bennington College Library collection of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and recordings related to the study of Black culture. We feel that such a grant would enable us to enrich and expand the teaching and studying of Black culture in the most productive way, and that such an enrichment was expansion is desirable as well as timely."Item Inaugural Address of Edward J. Bloustein(1965-10-09) Bloustein, Edward J.The Influence of Excellence: Bennington College and Higher EducationItem Kate Housekeeper and Ellie Siegel Memorial Funds(1969-05-08) Bloustein, Edward J."Several friends of Kate Housekeeper and Ellie Siegel and of their families have sent in sums of money which have been used to establish two memorial funds. Kate's and Ellie's families will ultimately decide on a fitting use to put each fund at the College."Item Letter to Mrs. Denise Levertov Goodman(1969-08-01) Bloustein, Edward J.President Bloustein writes to Levertov about the decision of the Quadrille not to publish her speech.Item Memo on Use of College Facilities during the NRT(1968-11-29) Bloustein, Edward J.After careful consideration of the many factors involved, the following limitations have been placed on possible use of college facilities during the coming Non-Resident Term.Item Parking Regulations(1968-11-05) Bloustein, Edward J.Item President Bloustein's 1966 commencement notes and Kenneth Burke honorary degree citation(1966-06-18) Bloustein, Edward J.Item President Bloustein's 1969 commencement notes and Martha Hill Davies honorary degree citation(1969-06-14) Bloustein, Edward J.Item Senator Robert F. Kennedy(1968-06-06) Bloustein, Edward J."I am certain I speak for all members of this community in expressing profound grief over the assassination of another of our national leaders, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. We mourn the loss of still another man who embodied our hopes for a better future. We despair over still another assault upon the politics of reason."Item Statement Published in the Bennington Banner(1968-04-12) Abernethy, William B.; Bloustein, Edward J.; Brown, Donald R.; Condon, Robert; Flanagan, Francis B.; Gil, Gloria; Gross, Chaim; Haynes, Spencer B.; Powers, Lawrence F.; Rowe, Leonard; Toolan, James M."We are white people. It was our forefathers who came to this country in search of freedom and yet who made black people into slaves; it was our forefathers who carried black people from Africa to America in boats of New England timber. We are white people. It was our forefathers who signed the Declaration of Independence with its claim that all men are created equal and yet who also signed the Constitution of the United States of America whose original form treated black people as three-fifths of a human being..." In 1968: Williams B. Abernathy was the pastor at the North Bennington (VT) Congregational Church; Edward J. Bloustein was the president of Bennington College; Donald R. Brown was a social science faculty member at Bennington College; Robert Condon was a local business owner; Francis B. Flanagan was the pastor of Sacred Heart Saint Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Bennington; Gloria Gil was a co-founder of Bennington Potters; Chaim Gross was the rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Bennington; Lawrence F. Powers was a local politician and business owner; Leonard Rowe was a social science faculty member at Bennington College; James M. Toolan was the medical director of United Counseling Service.Item A Study of Whether Bennington College Should Increase the Number of Males in Attendence(1968-03-05) Bloustein, Edward J."As most of you know, the question whether males should be admitted to Bennington College has been hotly debated since the College was founded. As most of you also know, it is more than a little misleading and somewhat unfair to call Bennington College an all-women's college. The fact is that for some years now we have been admitting a limited number of males in the performing arts and an even more limited number in other divisions of the College. More-over, the fact is that it has been the established policy of this College at least since the question last came before the Community in 1964 that "on occasion" we would accept "well qualified men." The issue I would like to now put before the Community is whether the College should begin to admit a substantially greater number of males than it has in the recent pas"Item Summer Residence on Campus(1968-05-31) Bloustein, Edward J."A limited exception will be made this year to the College policy of discouraging student residence and use of facilities during the summer. This exception is being made specifically for the purpose of enabling two groups of students to remain on campus , the first of them to engage in a study of the College and the second to engage in a community action project ."Item Tuitions, Size of Student and Faculty Bodies(1969-04-21) Bloustein, Edward J.