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Originally proposed in response to a pro-equal admissions petition signed by 1700 students, the CHUL resolution urged that Harvard adopt either sex-blind or one-to-one admissions--with all possible speed...
Other people, in other places and at other times, have faced much greater problems and surmounted them. President Allende once remarked that he had been expelled from his university's socialist organization in the early 1930s for refusing to adopt all of its positions. He had great doubts about his future at the time, the companero presidente recalled; a progressive government had just fallen, he had been repudiated by his own friends, and he did not think socialism would ever come to Chile...
...ENGLAND Governors Conference wisely refused to adopt a plan for a regional "special offenders" prison last week, though its instructions to state correctional officials to "review, evaluate and adopt any provisions of the report" don't exactly slam the door on the plan's implementation in the future. William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at the School of Public Health, developed the plan for the prison, which has prompted vocal opposition from the New England Prisoners Association, Massachusetts's assistant commissioner for drug rehabilitation, and the American Friends Service Committee, among other people...
Dash said he thought that "in the end the basic health of the system will allow it to recover. However, in order to escape this present-day Sodom and Gomorrah we must adopt new concepts of morality based upon integrity and justice...
...governors' resolution on the report instructs the officials of each New England state to "review, evaluate and adopt any provisions of the report that are applicable to correctional programs both on an individual state and joint basis...