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...Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life should adopt the proposal, passed on Monday by the subcommittee on Food Services, to institute an experimental policy of having two meatless days a week, to be followed by a student referendum on the question of instituting the plan permanently. But even if the plan is adopted, it will not be enough. Aside from the fact that it does not cover any of the graduate or professional schools--not to mention the Faculty Club--the meatless days plan does not insure any fundamental change in eating habits. No plan can do that, short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food for Thought | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

Reports of the panel discussions will go to the convention floor Sunday, but the party leadership will adopt no specific party positions nor solicit votes...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Divided Democrats May Fight At National Party Convention | 12/4/1974 | See Source »

...party commission set up to establish rules governing the 1976 presidential convention, chaired by Baltimore City Councilor Barbara Mikulski, earlier this year reached a compromise on the matter of quotas and affirmative action. The Kansas City convention, with the encouragement of Strauss and party moderates, might adopt the compromise language of the Mikulski commission for the permanent party charter...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Divided Democrats May Fight At National Party Convention | 12/4/1974 | See Source »

...addition to congressional reform, election reform and judicial reform are pressing issues that we Republicans should adopt as a national policy position. I found the voters responsive to these issues in my recent campaign for Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 2, 1974 | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...resolution's opponents also said decontrolling only vacant apartments was illegal. Councilor Barbara Ackermann said, "The law allows a city to adopt controls or not adopt them. The law does not allow a city to make up its own controls...

Author: By James I. Kaplan, | Title: Council Wants Decontrol Of Rents for Vacant Units | 11/26/1974 | See Source »

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