Word: consenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...behavior," then cited the fact that "illegitimate births in the U.S. have tripled in the past 25 years." Partly to blame are "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.' . . . 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 moral code than they have...
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...
...Milgram experiment was clearly deceptive, and the subjects were hardly competent to give their informed consent. Yet, the experiment was conducted. No proposal like this has ever come up before the Standing Committee. Six of the 12 committee members were asked whether Milgram could conduct his experiment today at Harvard. Of the five who felt they could answer, four indicated they would approve it, with firm qualifications about the selection of the subjects and their post-experimental handling...
...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...