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Letters have been sent to Law School Faculty by Abram J. Chayes '43, chairman of the Governance Committee inviting them to attend the forum and participate in the discussion...
...years since he came to power, the Emperor, now 78, has tried to nudge his medieval land toward the modern world. He has built a public school system that few attend, established an income tax that few pay and created a Parliament that has little power. The country's most basic need, land reform, is stymied because most parliamentarians and Cabinet members are landholders. "My biggest problem," says one government official, "is convincing the Minister of Land Reform that land reform is necessary." One-third of this year's $208 million budget is allocated to defense and security...
...Schuyler Hall is the largest of five student residences operated by the organization near American colleges. Although two resident priests celebrate Mass every day, only 60% of Schuyler's 75 residents are Catholic; three are Jewish, and there is one black. More than half the students attend Columbia, but the group is leavened by students from other New York campuses. They pay $155 to $190 a month-somewhat more than the $145 average for room and board in one of Columbia's own dorms-and agree to abide by Schuyler's strict, old-fashioned rules...
...presided over the dissolution of a fine educational system. While it is true that he has made college financially accessible to a great number of people, he has destroyed the incentive to go on to college by consenting to a reduction in the number of years students must attend school from nine to six. Classes in public schools are now conducted in Katherevousa, the literary dialect, which is normally not used in ordinary speech. While the use of Katherevousa may elevate the conversational level of some Greeks, for many, particularly the poor, it represents an immense obstacle to learning...
...process that the AAUP suggests," Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science and a leader of last Spring's campaign against the original procedures, said yesterday. However, Mendelsohn objected to one provision of the new proposal which states that two Corporation Fellows would be invited to attend the hearings as nonvoting observers...