Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some extent, the new guidelines accurately reflect an Ed School consensus on the role of the University during an urban crisis. Most reformers agree with the stands on research and neutrality. If the university does not gather knowledge, who will? And an inflexible coalition with one side or the other in the urban morass would limit the School's options for no productive purpose. The School Department is not impressed by Harvard opposition...
...course, would not guarantee the Ed School a prospering community program. Not even reformers know whether the Ed School's revised posture is acceptable to the community. And the rhetoric pouring out of Roxbury in the wake of King's assassination has provided little indication of where the community consensus lies. "There are going to be gatekeepers," says Thomas. "No one knows quite how these gatekeepers are going to operate, including, in many cases, the gatekeepers...
...denied a voice.) The situation will be discussed without representation by all concerned groups and therefore undemocratically. The Faculty Ad Hoc Committee, with whose representatives we have been meeting, is a split body. They have been trying to negotiate with us over matters on which their group has no consensus, and which will subsequently have to be brought to the Administration anyway. Under these circumstances, it is pointless to continue negotiating with a committee that does not have the authority to put forth a solution that recognizes that discipline is inappropriate for actions that are right and necessary...
Property Offenses. The consensus so far among the few investigators who have studied the problem is that an extra Y chromosome seems to be as sociated with below-average intelligence, tall stature and severe acne-traits that might result from the hormone-stimulating effects of the duplicated chromosome. But little more is known about the Y chromosome's effects. Dr. Wil liam Price, who works with the research group in Edinburgh, doubts that the XYY pattern can be linked with crimes of violence or sex. Among the XYY men studied at Carstairs, he points out, the proportion whose offenses...
Humphrey's announcement seems to have accomplished the once-impossible--it united the wildly disparate interests of John Connally of Texas, George Meany of the AFL-CIO, and Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP. In other words, leaders of Democratic interest groups have reached something of a consensus...