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McCarthy said he finds President Carter's decision to abolish the winner-take-all aspect of the Electoral College encouraging although he would also welcome a modification of the existing system...
...think if the members of this body were to take the vows of poverty, abolish our offices, abandon our homes and pitch pup tents on the Capitol lawn, we'd still be criticized for something-maybe for walking on the grass...
...plan, which will abolish four-year Houses at the Quad and house all freshmen in the Yard, increases the chances that this year's freshmen will be assigned to a Quad House...
What is particularly ludicrous, however, is that we are asked to make this sacrifice for the sake of tradition. Just as the University has seen fit to abolish other anachronistic traditions which intrude on the life styles of its students (like coat and tie rules, mandatory chapel, and single-sex dormitories--traditions which are probably even older than the bells), it should cease the preposterous practice of waking people up at 8:40 a.m. for no reason...
...Complicity with the CIA, organized a demonstration demanding that all complicity with the CIA be terminated and that all UCLA-CIA correspondence be published. An SYL-initiated committee at U Cal. Berkeley organized a picket and demonstration drawing over 250 participants around the slogans "CIA/NSA Recruiters off campus!" and "Abolish the CIA/NSA!" At Yale, an SYL propaganda campaign protesting the upcoming appearance of CIA recruiters on campus resulted in the cancellation of those scheduled interviews. Here in Boston, the super spy agency must be opposed by a militant protest action. "Abolish the CIA/NSA...