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...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...
...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...
...that lighten the sessions tend to be a bit lawyerly. "For instance," explains a Justice, "somebody might say in the middle of a rape-case discussion, 'I think the central question here is the same problem we faced in that antitrust case a few minutes ago: Was there consent?' It doesn't seem too funny now, but it gets a big laugh at the time...
...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...
...supposed to exchange technology and share plants. Amid rumors of boardroom squabbles, Citroën plans to sell additional stock, but Fiat General Manager Umberto Agnelli says that Fiat will buy none of it. As in the Dunlop-Pirelli alliance, neither side can move without the other's consent. Says Agnelli: "Our objectives are very ambitious-to produce the automobile of the future for a worldwide market." Citroën, he adds, has "failed to follow these objectives...