Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary wrote the "Fact and Rumor" column, and the Managing Editor was responsible for everything else. Thus, although the M.E. did the lion's share of the work, setting up the paper and making assignments, it was the President who guided the paper's policies, subject to the general consent of the Board. Henry James '99, President of The Crimson, wrote this description of a typical day at the paper in the December, 1899, Harvard Graduates' Magazine...
...Massachusetts State Guidelines for school integration were set down by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) in the 1971 Springfield Case. The Court ruled that no student may be bused out of his school district without his parent's consent. The court noted: "It would be possible to nullify the restriction simply by establishing gerrymandered or excessively large districts...
...School Committee voted unanimously in November to oppose the plan. School committeeman Paul Ellison commented: "I would go to jail before I would let a single child be bused without parental consent," even though the plan, as mentioned, does not call for forced busing. "The people will not accept this," stated ex-Committee Committee chairman James Hennigan. "The only solution I can see is the repeal of the Racial Imbalance Law and to start all over again...
...final selections of two representatives in a caucus of House nominees--falls short of the proposal for University-wide elections. While the direct election would have been more in keeping with the representative role of the committee members, the Whitlock plan offers some promise of "government by consent of the governed." Students should now focus on the character of the committee, rather than on election procedures. Having strengthened their position, undergraduate must...
...small professional staff will be recruited to investigate complaints about specific reporting performances. If an allegation cannot be resolved by mutual consent or by a lower-echelon complaints committee, the full council will hear and rule on the matter. The findings will have no legal or binding force; the hope is that wide publication of council opinions will give the organization moral authority. These procedures are modeled on those employed by Britain's press council...