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...James S. Ackerman, head tutor in Fine Arts, yesterday also expressed doubts about the future of the tutorial reforms. He said his department may be "overloaded with rules" next year, because they must also adhere to the regulations of the Core Curriculum. "If we get enough rules, we won't be able to fulfill any of them," he added...
Tribe holds that since the Constitution does not explicitly state who controls a convention's agenda, the convention and Congress would probably bicker. Bruce Ackerman, professor of law at Yale, takes an even stronger position in this week's New Republic, maintaining that Article V conventions must be open to any amendment and cannot be limited to a specific agenda. Ackerman says that no one has the power to limit a convention's agenda, and no one ought to; he apparently believes the drafters of the Constitution intended the convention clause for the next time Americans wanted to rewrite their...
...JAMES S. ACKERMAN, professor of Fine Arts, who headed the faculty committee on the arts, proposes establishing fellowships for visiting artists. But these are temporary, extra-curricular plans that would avoid the tenure and credit problems. They are unsatisfying...
...Presidents have ended treaties without asking for the Senate's support; one of the last times was in 1939, when Franklin Roosevelt canceled a commercial agreement with Japan. Several constitutional experts sided with the Administration. "The search for precedents is not critical," said Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman. "What we have is a gradual evolution of presidential-congressional interaction on the conduct of foreign affairs. It seems obvious to me that once the President has acted unilaterally, there is little Congress...
Kaiser and the Steelworkers agreed to their affirmative-action program voluntarily, notes Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman, but "with the Government looking over their shoulders." Fewer than 2% of the 273 skilled craft workers at the Kaiser plant where Weber works were black, while the surrounding area's work force was 39% black. Discrimination had been shown at two other Kaiser plants in Louisiana, and the company risked losing federal contracts. But Kaiser still insisted in the lower courts that there had been no past discrimination. Why? Because the company did not want to lay itself open to suits...