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Silber's formative path

Description: Kathryn Silber, Melvin Miller, and BU colleagues reminisce on John Silber's life leading up to his gubernatorial candidacy. Helen Vendler. Photos of young Silber, wedding, college, with family.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/30/1990

Silber, Seragen, Seradyn

Description: John Silber denies profiting f/Seradyn investment. Documents show BU trustees & officers did benefit f/Seradyn sale. Henry Morgan charges conflict of interest in Seragen ownership.Commonwealth armory
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1990

Silber: no run for governor

Description: BU president John Silber announces he will not run for statewide office in 1990; instead will devote himself to rebuilding Chelsea public schools.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1989

Students crusade against homelessness

Description: Boston University students camp out in a tent in front of Marsh Chapel as symbolic protest against homelessness.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1989

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Questions about BU investments through Commonwealth Partners; trustees and officers benefit privately, violate fiduciary responsibility; John Silber on Seradyn. 2) Daniel Ellsberg on US troop buildup in Saudi Arabia parallel to Vietnam. 3) Increasing incidence of AIDS among women; interview with Maryalice Guilford. 4) Gov. Dukakis on tax on professional services needed to make up budget deficit; Sen. Paul Cellucci.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1990

Tenor Carlo Bergonzi

Description: Operatic tenor Carlo Bergonzi gives master class at BU. Student sings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/18/1989

Trash strike at BU

Description: Buildings and grounds workers strike at Boston University. AFL-CIO Local 254 picket signs. Trash has accumulated all over campus. Overflowing waste barrels, litter strewn on walkways. Custodial staff emerges from union meeting. Graffiti “Support the strike” and “No scabs.” Food debris spread on lawn. Garbage spilling out of dumpster. Trash bags piled around BFI receptacle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/08/1978

Upholding scientific research standards

Description: MIT professor Herman Eisen is dismayed that NIH has established research guidelines. He believes this policing impedes creativity of scientists. Mouse being dissected. MIT dome. View of BU from Charles.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1991

Vote to oust Silber

Description: People leaving meeting at Boston University. Interview with Howard Zinn on vote to remove John Silber as BU president. Zinn says acts of conscience and criticism of administration result in retribution. He calls for a change in the situation at BU. Interview with John Silber, who says BU is a place of debate and academic freedom without repression. Faculty assembly votes (456 to 215) to ask Board of Trustees to dismiss Silber. Press conference held by psychology professor Joe Speisman, who speaks on behalf of faculty. Other professors, student leader Maureen Sultzer, and District 65 labor union representative Carol Yorman speak about their support of the vote to remove Silber from office and other related matters.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/18/1979

Weld and Silber - men of means

Description: Silber and Weld are men of means, but Weld denies self-consciousness about it and Silber downplays it. Family backgrounds. BU president's house. Photos of Silber as a boy. Weld home,boathouse,hall at Harvard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/11/1990