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GLORIA STEINEM, editor, Ms. magazine: Mine was a middle-class family in Toledo fallen on hard times, but we had books in the house. Like many women who don't conform, I didn't have brothers, so it is possible some of the dreams of the family were inadvertently invested in me. Show business was a pass ticket out of our neighborhood, so we all dreamed of being Teresa Brewer, who had made it. I did go to college. Then my father sent me an ad from a Las Vegas club for chorus girls...
Since 1970 ORC has had guidelines for negotiating contracts. The Report of the Committee on Criteria for Acceptance of Sponsored Research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences sets up seven principles to which research agreements must conform. The report calls for guarantees of freedom to publish results, and prohibition of research "which carries security classification, or requires security clearance of University personnel...
Byker told The Crimson last July that the course was dropped "because of the absence of a full-time teacher, lack of office space, and the opinion that the course does not conform to the Expos 'mold.'" But facts incompatible with these three explanations and contradictory statements from Byker recently have made it difficult to understand exactly why and how the course was really dropped...
Donald Byker, assistant director of Expository Writing, said last week that the course is being dropped because of the absence of a full-time teacher, lack of office space, and the opinion that the course did not conform to the Expos class "mold...
...product, to first and a net total worth almost exceeding that of the sum-total of the three previous leaders, France, Britain and Germany. Sex, religion, nativity and prior rural and village cultures still meant something to workers caught up in an all-encompassing industrialization and its pressures to conform to management's demands for "normal" work habits, to break up the nuclear family in the face of unemployment and sometimes even to give up benefits ceded to one's own ethnic group (at the expense of others) and unionize...