Post's provost, Joseph Shenker, said his prime concern was to keep the college functioning through the strike.
Purchased in 1972 by the New York Institute of Technology, whose Old Westbury campus is next door, and renamed the de Seversky Conference Center, the ornate 41,000-square-foot mansion has been used for the college's culinary arts and hospitality management programs, for conferences and for other college functions.
Now the school, after three years of what its president, Edward Guiliano, called "a very amiable give and take" with village officials, has developed a subdivision plan that would allow it to retain the section of the property it needs for college functions and to dispose of the rest, with the proceeds to go into its endowment fund.
He also liked to get up the establishment's nose by rarely joining in college functions, instead founding the North Oxford Labour party - "there were two of us" - and composing and singing his own songs on Marxist literary theory to traditional Irish folk tunes in local pubs.
There are several other elected non-executive officers such as Returning Officer, Fresher Rep and Sports Captain who organise other important college functions.
The college functions on a quarter system, and one weekend each term is set aside as a traditional celebratory event, known on campus as "big weekends" or "party weekends".
The colleges function not so much in loco parentis as in loco concierge.
A second tier was the state colleges functioning as teaching institutions focusing primarily on undergraduate education, with some graduate courses; they enrolled a third of California students.
The electoral college would function exactly as it always has.
The electoral college today functions differently than the Founders envisioned — they did not anticipate political parties — but it does buttress the values encouraged by the federalism the Framers favored, which Pennsylvanians, and others, should respect.
The college degree functions a signal to society.
