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Jones said that the Committee on Fellowships and other Aids--which will meet on Monday--has the final decision-making power on the issue of distribution of aid, and that his personal feeling was that the Committee would adopt a need criteria for aid. "But I would like to get as much input as possible before we decide," he added...
Harvard is the first school to adopt "Operation Identification," as the program is called, although thefts were reduced considerably this year because most entrances to the Houses and the Yard are now locked, according to Sgt. George A. Hill of the University police, the initiator of the identification program. The entire cost of the program is negligible, involving the purchase of twenty engravers at $10 each, Hill said...
...Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, which has the power to revoke medical licenses. After hearing hospital personnel tell about missing reports and erroneous or unkept records, the coroner's jury cited the Montfort Hospital for a "considerable lack of liaison between the various departments" and urged it to adopt better administrative practices. It also heard testimony about other patients' postoperative problems (one woman told of an overwhelming though inexplicable desire to eat mud) which raised new doubts about weight-loss surgery...
...instance, when two women proposed that the conference adopt a resolution to President Nixon condemning the latest escalation of the war, Cless told them that such an action would be better taken on an individual basis and suggested they set up a petition table outside the conference hall...
SINCE THERE was great awareness at last night's meeting that a strike related to the University would be a bad mistake, we need not take the time to dispose of that canard. And what remains for us to adopt is a strategy involving visible, physical protest and demonstration against the war. Here again, it would be silly to depend on a one-shot, Moratorium-style strategy: our demonstrations must be continuous, and they must escalate in size and militancy. And to grow, they must carry with them a large measure of strong political logic. They may begin with marches...