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...been made against the Administration and Faculty in this dispute on four counts. Three of these we see as addressing structural concerns: a) There should not be two separate forums for disciplinary action; the Administrative Board alone should act in that capacity. b) The CRR as constituted possesses unreasonably broad and arbitrary disciplinary powers, and at present represents an ideological homogeneity that makes objective decisions unlikely. c) Student participation on the committee is unacceptable; students should not be forced (or allowed) to judge their peers. The fourth charge is more ideological: d) that the CRR is a "hit squad...
Opposition to the proposed panel-whose five members will wield broad powers to scrutinize the Police Department's behavior and to investigate wrong doing--was spearheaded by City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who tried to delete the expenditure from the 1986 municipal budget Sullivan's motion divided the city council evenly, failing to win the necessary five votes for passage...
...occur at all, they could shake the foundations of evolutionary biology and call into question the current concept of natural selection. Should the Alvarez theory be correct, says Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, the importance of competition between species diminishes. If every so often a megablast opens up a broad array of ecological niches, then new creatures can flourish without having to crowd out the old. "If you ask the question, 'Why are we here?' " says Gould, "the answer is, 'Because the dinosaurs disappeared, not because the mammals outcompeted them...
DIED. Yitzhak Kahan, 72, former justice and president (1977-83) of Israel's Supreme Court, known for his broad legal knowledge, integrity and modesty, who headed the commission of inquiry into the Israeli role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen in Beirut; of a heart attack; in Haifa. The Kahan commission's exhaustive, carefully worded report assigned "personal responsibility" to Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for not anticipating and ordering measures to prevent the bloodshed and apportioned a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...military outlays 3% above the estimated rate of inflation will all come under fierce attack, which will be even sharper if the overall budget package cannot squeak through the G.O.P.-controlled Senate. "If we lose, we start the demolition derby," says Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. Even if the broad budget package passes, he adds, "maybe it will be a demolition derby anyway...