Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberties activists will again oppose the Criminal Justice Reform Act, now called S. 1630. Last week at Harvard, 200 students from a variety of campus political groups demonstrated against the bill, which if enacted in its current form would preserve some of the worst features of the existing criminal code while adding new provisions designed to restrict individual liberties. Fourteen of the University's most respected professors, including Stephen J. Gould, Jonathan Beckwith, and Vern Countryman have formally lobbied the Senate to defeat the legislation...
...concrete changes--suggesting that letters be addressed to specific individuals and that authors describe their relationships with the doctors under consideration. But the core of the report--its "golden rule" policy--confirms the ancient maxim that sometimes nothing is as difficult to see as the obvious. The proposed code--which would require anyone writing a letter of recommendation to include all information that he would like to know were he to receive the letter--seems little more than "common sense...
...commend the Med School for reviewing its policy towards letters of reference and add out voice to those already calling for adoption of the committee's code. Its swift acceptance is particularly important given the heinous nature of the incident from which the recommendation report stemmed--the case of the two Med School doctors who endorsed Dr. Arif Hussain, a convicted gang-rapist, for a Buffalo hospital...
...addition to expanding the code's jurisdiction, the Council discusses several possibilities for improving the current grievance procedure, including...
Concerned that the Faculty's current formal grievance procedure proved problematic in its first and only use, professors and administrators yesterday began discussing ways to improve the code...