Word: abolitionism
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The 2½-year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha has been edging cautiously toward reform of South Africa's rigid system of enforced racial separation. It has advocated the abolition or modification of many so-called petty apartheid regulations, such as the hated pass laws that restrict...
As chancellor of the sprawling State University of New York during the early 1970s, Ernest Boyer often met with angry students who demanded the abolition of required courses. Boyer disagreed. But he also took seriously complaints that "general education" courses (courses supposed to be broad enough to benefit all students...
Although the Dowling proposal calls for abolition of groups such as the Student Assembly and the establishment of a centralized government body, many current student representatives have viewed the funding provision as the heart of the plan because existing governing bodies have been plagued by their lack of independent funding...
Although they could not muster a quorum, Student Assembly members last Sunday met as a committee to lend their qualified support to the changes in College governance proposed in the recently-released Dowling Committee report. Assembly members also called for the abolition of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--a...
SLAVERY, its immorality and its legacy, shape and constrain the image of America's most lethal conflict--its Civil War. Yet the Civil War served as more than the military midwife to abolition.