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Students, faculty and employees at Cornell University will vote today and tomorrow on whether to abolish the Cornell University Senate, an elected body that administers Cornell's $18.5 million extracurricular activities budget...
...amendment has recently begun to encounter some strenuous opposition, much of it organized by a well-financed lobby called Stop ERA. Its principal argument is that ERA would abolish many legal safeguards that, in the past, have established and protected the woman's place in the home: the requirement that men support their families, Social Security benefits that widows receive from a husband's job and that, if a marriage fails, the wife gets alimony and child support...
Paul N. Ylvisaker, dean of the Ed School, outlined his tentative plans to impose the suspension and to abolish the Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Public Policy program before an open meeting of the Ed School that attracted 300 people...
...paper had shifted from conservative to liberal in the space of a few decades, and no longer did Crimson editors support the Republican ticket. John F. Kennedy '40 was a former Crimson editor, the holder of a recent Harvard honorary degree, and the sponsor of the bill to abolish the loyalty oath for NDEA loan applicants, which The Crimson has ardently supported. Although Kennedy's connection with the paper had been tenuous, at best--he never made much of his membership on the Business Board--Crimson editors felt a sentimental attachment to him. In comparison with the other candidates before...
...decade, the Bank of America in San Francisco has been spending $170,000 a year on free taxi rides home for 325 female employees who work after 8 p.m. Recently, male workers have complained that they are being discriminated against. Bowing to the pressure, BOA has decided to abolish the free rides; instead, it will provide free shuttle service to brightly lighted parking areas. But, as Key Punch Operator June Apedaile points out, "most women either don't have a car or don't want to drive." Having won their point, BOA'S male employees...