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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to agree with the broad divestment movement on campus... We think that investments in South Africa are positive for the people there, whereas in the case of the Soviet Union, selling goods is not in our national interest," said Mark P. Lagon '86, president of the Republican Club...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Conservatives Urge Sale of USSR Stock | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

Following charges that administrators censored the 1985-86 CUE Guide, the student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) began a broad review of the perennially controversial publication. The committee is seeking to solve two pressing problems--disagreement over the book's editorial freedom and objections to its official use as a tool for evaluating instructors...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: CUE Quandry | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

...informal discussions or conversations refer to matters of sex or sexuality, be it in respect to art, literature, philosophy, or the social or natural sciences, could be sued for "forcing pornography on" people or as "trafficking" in it. The definition of pornography in the ordinance is sufficiently broad to cover any of the better sex education materials as well as much literature, art, and scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proposition 3, No | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

There are two strands to Tribe's argument. First, he argues that presidents and the Senate should attempt to appoint people on the basis of broad philosophical orientations and not particular issues. Second, the Senate and President should attempt to balance the court by not appointing too many liberals or too many conservatives...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: Not a Fifth-Grade Civics Class | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

With such reasoning and far more analytical grace, Tribe hopes to persuade the President and the Senate to be moderate. His broad guidelines are to find justices who believe the Bill of Rights should be applied to the states, who believe that the "one-person, one-vote" doctrine is correct, who are neither communists nor capitalist pigs, who will not strike down amendments to the Constitution to outlaw abortion or other issues. He wants judges who are capable of making decisions, who have a clear philosophy about the court's role. In short, he wants very intelligent judges, because...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: Not a Fifth-Grade Civics Class | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

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