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...fate of the pro bono requirement, oneversion of which would compel students to donatetime counseling needy clients, will not bedetermined until the Law School's faculty voteslater this month...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 yesterday released the final version of a tough new College drinking policy which will require students to inform their houses of keg deliveries and compel tutors to enforce state regulations on underage drinking...
...subvert the slow and, natch, "elitist" way in which art tends to find an audience, she started writing short slogans and leaving them in public places for people to read. "If you want to reach a general audience," she proclaimed, "it's not art issues that are going to compel them to stop on their way to lunch, it has to be life issues...
...overabundance of leisure has finally exasperated majority leader George Mitchell. When other Senators beseeched him to postpone legislative business so that they could attend their children's graduations, the annoyed Mitchell cried, "When can we vote?" On a recent Friday he scheduled a procedural vote on a motion to compel absentees to return to the Capitol. Nine failed to answer the roll call, but it could have been worse. Several Senators canceled their plane reservations at the last minute to appear at Mitchell's "bed check...
Although this practice has earned a bad reputation and the unfortunate appelation "social engineering," coercing people into tolerance is not necessarily a bad thing. In public schools, government uses its discipline over children to compel them to share classrooms with children of other races, creeds and religions. Casual observation and empirical study both show that such integration is a positive force for social reform...