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...council was reluctant to spend university funds in the attempt to unionize the faculty because the state "could interpret it as using University money for political purposes." Reed Whittemore, faculty council chairman, said. In addition, the incoming chairwoman of the council and other members do not favor unionization...
...matter of changing a series of pronouns or of eliminating inexcusably sexist language such as calling female employees "the girls." The Women's Student Association has just created a case revision committee aimed at improving the image of women portrayed in the cases. Susan Carash, the committee's chairwoman, described efforts towards improvement, as "still in the embroynic stages." Unfortunately these badly needed revisions are hampered by the "historical significance" attributed to all case references and by regulations requiring the author's consent to any revisions. Even in a case published this year a female production manager's decision whether...
Looking out over the gilded hall, where shouting matches were degenerating into fistfights, the conference chairwoman, Lena Jeger, rapped her gavel and shook her head like an angry schoolmarm. "This isn't a football match!" she cried over the pandemonium. "We are making a spectacle of ourselves!" So it seemed. At the very time when Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was slumping and vulnerable to possible attack, some 1,250 Labor Party delegates trekked to the seaside resort of Blackpool for their annual conference last week and promptly turned their guns on one another. The result...
...chairwoman of the A.P.A.'s ethics committee, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, acknowledges that radio psychologists are technically in violation of the association's code, but she argues that the code should be bent to accommodate the new trend. Says she: "My hunch is that they will double or triple in number within the next year or two. We don't want them to say, 'Either I'm going to be a star or a member of the A.P.A.' " In any case, as long as radio shrinks give only chatty-type advice rather than formal diagnoses...
...should have exercised his leadership sooner, but they question his approach. "The Cabinet dismissals are signs of a siege mentality," observed Robert Wildau, an Atlanta attorney. Such views are by no means universal, however. "I sense people still have faith in Carter's leadership," said Joyce Peters, Democratic chairwoman of Bexar County in Texas. "I believe he is stronger in the country than is being perceived." Agreed Texas State Democratic Chairman Billy Goldberg: "Carter is still seen as the guy who sticks with a tough problem...