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...real world, as well as the quality and method of the teaching itself. Secondly, they seek a closer and more significant relationship with the faculty. The desire for a collegial community of scholars, teaching and learning from each other, motivates many of the demands for reform. And finally, students assert that they should play a larger role in determining the educational and administrative policies of their schools...
...first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast") and in the spectacle of a mad Lady MacBird sweetening the land with bouquets and aerosol deodorant. To assert that MacBird rapes the old Swan with no intelligence and no compassion is evidently to miss the point, for Miss Garson makes no claims for her idiom or for her pentameters. "I worked for four months with Shakespeare in front of me," she reports, "so I know the difference between...
Property or Privacy? As the appellate court saw it, Mapp commanded states to follow the federal mere-evidence rule, which stemmed from the idea that the Fourth Amendment protected a person's private property from seizure. Unless the Government or the complainant could assert a superior interest in the property, said Gouled, the suspect was entitled to keep it. Straining to bypass the rule, courts have since typically barred original tax records or checks as the property of the accused and therefore mere evidence-while admitting photographic copies...
...university as the strategic source of qualified manpower, must assert its vital economic role to prevent reductions in its budget or faculty...
Galbraith also said that universities must give freedom even to those who would destroy it or assert "damaging nonsense." But he stressed that Universities must recognize their personal responsibility to counter such ideas...