Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most unorthodox concept of the agreement negotiated by the college and state, local and Negro representatives is a community council to be formed within a month to establish nonprofit community-housing cooperatives. The council will ensure that local Negroes have a hand, in every phase of the new housing, which will be built on 64 Central Ward acres retrieved by the city from the school's orieinal 150-acre site...
...example, Dictograph Products Inc. sponsors a training program for microsoldering hearing aids, hires the trained convicts after their release. Geared to problem solving, such treatment reconciles offenders with relatives, schools, employers. It is urgently needed in local jails, which should be integrated into state correctional systems. Under this concept, prisons would resemble hospitals; "punishment" would produce functioning human beings-the way to crime prevention...
...enough-we have to give back to the community." And that may be the most profound point. The goal of crime prevention can be reached partly by attacks on crime-breeding social conditions, partly by creating more efficient police and courts. But also vital is a new concept of mutual reconciliation between convict and community: the outcast must be allowed to earn his way back and thereby learn to believe in himself...
...deal with this resolution) should give the matter the same careful consideration that the SFAC has given it. The Dean's review of TV policy earlier this month clearly ignored very important issues. The University should formulate a new policy based on the SFAC proposal, true to Harvard's concept of individual freedom of expression...
...result of this psychiatric involvement in the legal process, says Professor Dershowitz, "has been the gradual introduction of a medical model in place of the laws' efforts to articulate legally relevant criteria." In other words, the presence or absence of "mental illness," a poorly defined and widely questioned concept, about which even psychiatrists disagree, has practically become the exclusive basis for decisions of preventive detention...