su-etc
assorted drivel
Now that the pack has been successful in getting rid of the Reagan
Library I fear it will turn its renewed attention to attacking the
Hoover Institution.  We will get more such sanctimonious nonsense
as ''We are seriously concerned over public and particularly alumni
perception. It will add to the stereotype of an ultra-liberal or liberal
faculty rejecting a more conservative president, and I think that isn't
true.'' if Manley et. al. succeed in damaging the Hoover.
a006  2157  24 Apr 87
PM-Reagan Library, Bjt,0489
Faculty Opposition Said To Be Behind Reagan Library Transfer
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Faculty opposition to plans for a Ronald Reagan
presidential library at Stanford University apparently contributed to
a decision to relocate the library to Southern California, sources at
the California school say.
    ''I think it is fair to say that it was not ignored,'' a Stanford
professor who was active in planning the library said when asked
whether faculty opposition was one reason the library's backers
decided to seek another site. The professor spoke on condition he not
be identified.
    Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation members would not go beyond
their official statement that they were pulling out of Stanford
because they felt it essential that the library and a proposed policy
center be located together.
    The decision to separate them, however, was made by the university's
trustees in 1984, and the foundation continued planning for the
Stanford facility, holding a news conference in Washington only three
months ago to unveil the architect's design.
    ''They supposedly had accepted three years ago the idea that a
policy center, if there was to be one, would have to be off campus
and completely separate, so it seems like a big change of mind on
their part,'' said Anthony E. Siegman, a professor of electrical
engineering and a library critic who lives near the proposed Stanford
site.
    Last month, 12 former chairmen of the Stanford Faculty Senate said
the library should be scaled down or moved farther from the center of
campus, rather than the 20-acre site personally approved by Reagan
two years ago.
    The chairmen noted ''a growing faculty uneasiness over proposed
plans for this structure.''
    The library planner who spoke anonymously said a number of leading
educational institutions in Southern California, as well as other
organizations, had expressed interest in being the library's site
since the foundation's announcement Thursday.
    John Manley, a political science professor, called the decision not
to locate the complex in Stanford, which is south of San Francisco,
''a community victory.''
    Seigman, in a telephone interview, said that although library
critics were happy about the decision, ''We are seriously concerned
over public and particularly alumni perception. It will add to the
stereotype of an ultra-liberal or liberal faculty rejecting a more
conservative president, and I think that isn't true.''
    ''The library just turned out to be too big and too much of a
tourist attraction for the site,'' he said. ''We were not trying to
drive the library away from the campus.''
    ''But,'' he added, ''the mood on campus is certainly one of
rejoicing.''
    White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan was ''comfortable
with the decision'' although the spokesman said he believed that the
foundation, which operates independently of the White House, did not
consult the president about it.
    The president gave a White House dinner Friday night for library
supporters, including at least two members of the foundation board.
    
AP-NY-04-25-87 0056EDT
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