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There is unanimous agreement that the Government Department should not unilaterally abolish tutorial grades, and thereby penalizes Gov majors. The departments should agree. But they should agree to place more emphasis on grades in "99" courses, not less...
...program would abolish compulsory lower-level Gen Ed. A student who had fulfilled certain prerequisites could complete his requirement by taking an upper-level Gen Ed course...
...abolish the School would effectively remove the university from engagement with the profession as well as from any serious enterprise of professional training. Such training simply cannot be properly conducted by one or two designated persons or by a small Arts and Science committee, nor can such a Committee command the requisite energy and range for maintaing relationships with schools and school people. To fragment the School and absorb it into the departments would, moreover, change the whole quality of the enterprise. In the Arts and Science fram-work, where the dominant ethos is that of advanced research and scholarship...
...Senate Judiciary Committee vote of 9 to 7, Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's proposed constitutional amendment to allow a state to apportion one house of its legislature on a basis other than population. The committee then cleared, 14 to 2, a House-passed immigration bill to abolish the national-quotas system, adding an amendment by North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin that would impose a 120,000-a-year limit on immigration from Western Hemisphere countries...
Vote at 18? Nor is this all. This year 314 constitutional amendments have been introduced in the House. Ninety-eight deal with apportionment, 65 would give equal rights to women, 41 concern religion. Some of the others would establish a uniform voting age of 18, reform or abolish the electoral college, repeal the income tax, forbid federal-budget deficits except in time of national emergency, and double the two-year term of House members. Most of these also have been introduced in the Senate...