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MORE COMPLICATED DECISIONS involve the issue of subjects' "informed consent." The committee must judge if subjects are "competent" to decide whether or not to participate in the study--a particularly salient point in clinical studies and studies of children. Experimenters in the social sciences sometimes deceive the subjects as to their purpose, in order to get unself-conscious results. How informed must consent be? Someone must decide, because the subjects' lack of knowledge about what they're participating in renders them incompetent...
...Stanford University's Lambda Nu fraternity house, complains Junior Dan Stone, 20, "our most cohesive social function is watching Walter Cronkite." Next fall the fraternity's social life should get a big lift. With the University's consent, the 30 brothers living at Lambda Nu will welcome 20 coeds as "associates" who will sleep and eat in the fraternity, participate in its activities and, predicts one brother, monopolize the house's lone telephone...
Divorced. Gina Lollobrigida, 40, Italy's ever beautiful, always busy (Hotel Paradiso) movie queen; and Milko Skofic, 48, the Yugoslav-born physician she married 19 years ago; by mutual consent after a legal separation of 18 months; in Vienna. Since La Lollo retains Italian citizenship, she is still Signora Skofic back home...
...first Memphis march a fortnight ago, and Loeb (along with Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington) responded with state troopers and National Guardsmen, King felt that his nonviolent philosophy had been besmirched and wanted to withdraw. Only at the urging of his aides in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference did he consent to return...
...that illegitimate births in the U.S. have tripled in the past 25 years. He placed a major share of the blame on college officials who, by allowing men and women to visit each other in dorms, have encouraged intimacy both on and off campus, and "are actually giving tacit consent to premarital sex." This "puts an unhealthy degree of pressure on those who wish to curb their natural impulses," he said. But Blaine saw brighter prospects ahead. He reported on a poll of Harvard undergraduates, most of whom indicated that they hope their future children will live by a stricter...