■Governor Francis W. Sargent said last week’s University of Massachusetts demonstration, which forced former Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey to leave the campus without making the speech he had been invited to give, “merited looking into.” “It was certainly a regrettable occasion to have a few people disrupt order to such an extent that a former president candidate was prevented from speaking,” Sargent said.
■A top award for on-the-job safety was presented to the Pro Brush Division of Vistron Corporation in a ceremony Tuesday. The award, called the “Vistron President’s Safety Award,” was presented by Vistron President Donald G. Stevens to Plant Manager Eric Stahlberg and a group of more than 25 employees who represented Pro’s 1,200 men and women.
■Feminist leader and author Gloria Steinem, a 1956 graduate of Smith College, will return to her alma mater to deliver this year’s commencement address. Steinem is consulting editor for “Ms.” magazine, which she co-founded in 1972.
■Northampton High School Principal Gordon Noseworthy is recovering at home after undergoing three hours of surgery at The Cooley Dickinson Hospital on Monday following a ski accident Sunday. Noseworthy said his wrist was shattered into five pieces in the accident at Maple Valley ski area in Vermont.
■In the wake of news that University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson will step down in 2011, UMass faculty credited Wilson for supporting the university’s research initiatives, the creation of the lucrative UMassOnline, and shepherding the university through difficult financial times.
■The Northampton Survival Center is moving closer to renovating and expanding its emergency food pantry now that it has crossed the halfway mark in its first capital campaign. The 30-year-old center is planning a major overhaul of its cramped Prospect Street facility.