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...environment. Is our relationship with our environment constructive or destructive? Is the University behaving as a good and responsible neighbor? What sorts of things can universities in general and this University in particular properly do to help in the solution of our community's immediate needs? How can we avoid duplication, waste or misdirection in our efforts? What might we do--without betraying, or at least injuring our capacity to forward our essential tasks of teaching and advancing knowledge? Pursuing this thought, have we come to a time when we must consider altering and enlarging our conception of the University...
...from jury duty, like lawyers and doctors, a number of others are excused because they are hard of hearing, have ill spouses, suffer from weak bladders or cannot stand the economic sacrifice. John Carmody, an American Bar Association specialist on court procedures, reports that many people who want to avoid long service purposely do not register to vote (since jurors are often picked at random from voting lists). Others may even lie in court. In murder trials, for example, they may insist that they oppose capital punishment-though such persons are no longer automatically excused. Or they may answer...
...agent's affidavit and the informant's word together were sufficient to establish "probable cause." From the bench, Black angrily attacked his colleagues for trying to supervise local magistrates "from a thousand miles away." Justice Byron White said that he was voting with the majority to avoid a deadlocked court (Justice Thurgood Marshall had abstained). Declaring himself confused by the majority opinion, White called for "fullscale reconsideration" of the precedents for it. White's proposal may be seconded by the court's law-and-order-conscious critics, who are likely to look on the decision...
...social system anywhere as precise as what the economists have for the economic system." Nor do the social scientists have a measurement for social values akin to the dollar, although one possible theoretical unit is called the "utile," used by economists to weigh the price people would pay to avoid the sonic boom of an SST, for example, as against the economic benefits that the plane would give them...
Music remains Hollander's primary means of what he rather loftily calls "searching for meaning." Recently, he asked himself whether it was really his ambition to make a lot of money and keep his name in the papers. He decided that what he really wanted was to avoid being up tight ("Why should I be so wrought up that I pace the floor before a concert?"), have a satisfying marriage, spend time with friends, read philosophy and pursue the charmingly ingenuous notion that he is "alive, sensing, part of the universe." He says: "I could work myself into...