Word: abolitionism
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Poher, by contrast, strove to explain "why an unknown such as myself had the audacity to enter the presidential race" and read on television one of the fan letters he had received urging him to run ("You have brought us reason to be courageous and hopeful"). Poher offered a platform...
* Abolition of tuition is a possibility.
At Dartmouth College, strong sentiment against the Viet Nam war has long focused on the nearest target: ROTC. In democratic fashion, the college last month submitted the issue to a student referendum. Duly reflecting the results, the faculty then voted to abolish ROTC over a four-year period so that...
But the abolition of grades would nevertheless have a number of very beneficial effects. The first is that it would greatly facilitate learning. It seems reasonable to expect that students would learn a great deal more if they were able to pursue their own intellectual interests within a rational academic...
An exam boycott is in several ways a perfect tactic. It is disruptive, of course, but it disrupts only its object. No classes will be interfered with, no learning will in any way be curtailed. A boycott has the further virtue of embodying both the petition and the implementation of...