Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covering a broad range of issues--from human rights to abortion to union-busting--Costanza told the crowd of about 100 that "the major problems in this nation are those which deny citizens their human dignity...
...opinion of the student body, the situation warrants it, the assembly could function as an organizer to mobilize student resources and demonstrate our resolve. Obviously, the new assembly will not be a frequent organizer of building occupations. Recent demonstrations at Brown and Penn, however, have had broad-based student support and have been successful in altering administration decisions in Ivy League schools...
...stated aim of the Core Curriculum is to provide each Harvard undergraduate with a broad basis of knowledge upon which to build later in life. That is, to guarantee that we receive a "liberal arts education." It is argued that the present system of general education and distribution requirements can be abused, that it really does not provide the aforementioned guarantee. For example, a Biology major can fulfill his social sciences requirement by taking neurophysiology courses offered by the Psychology Department without really broadening his horizons beyond the landscape of biology...
...many Biology majors are doing this? How many people leave Harvard with the liberal, well-rounded education that the educators of this institution desire us to have? I believe that one of the reasons a large majority of us came here was to get a broad educational background. For this reason I believe that this same majority, under the present system, leaves Harvard with just that broad educational base it desires...
...question of immunity encountered opposition even among committee members. Some members said that transactual immunity is perhaps too broad a power with which to equip the commission. The attorney general and various committee members recommended a policy of "use immunity"--immunity with regard to specifics--as a substitute for the across-the-board "transactual immunity." Bellotti encouraged the committee to specifically delinate within the bill the circumstances under which the power of immunity would be used. Without such an amendment, he said, "the special commission poses a direct threat to effective prosecutorial efforts...