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Even where the societies are booming again, however, the conventional lines of separatism are being erased, and an atmosphere of constraint and cautious adherence to more stringent rules pervades most houses. Virtually all national fraternities and sororities have stripped from their charters any ethnic or religious bars to membership. Some 18 states have passed laws forbidding dangerous or degrading hazing, and colleges and Greek societies have added their own toughened antihazing regulations. To comply with 21-or-over liquor laws already adopted in 38 states, many campuses require notification of college authorities plus the guarantee of a sober, drinking...
Boehrer stresses the strictly voluntary nature of the videotaping and consulting process. "TFs can get help and feedback on teaching without cost, constraint, or interruption, by their own choice...
...auto companies originally did not like the move to megadealers. General Motors tried to control its dealers by limiting them to just one GM franchise. Potamkin avoided that constraint by keeping only one GM dealership in his name and letting his sons own the others. Other dealers who wanted to increase revenues started taking on hot-selling imports. Owners of Chevrolet or Cadillac franchises were soon selling German and Japanese cars as well. This year GM changed its rules, allowing dealers to own five separate GM franchises and invest in five more...
...making authority in the Executive Branch has been compromised by the Legislative Branch to an extent that actively interferes," Weinberger declared, a position that Reagan and Secretary Shultz share. In essence, the eleven-year-old act limits the President's freedom to wage undeclared wars. For Congress that constraint is one of the lessons of Viet Nam. But critics point out that the time limit of the act might also cede an important advantage to military enemies: if it seems possible that Congress will not authorize combat past the first 60 days, the enemy has a built-in incentive...
Selection itself is no proof of bias, it is merely a necessity: the millions of words a newspaper receives must be reduced to the thousands it prints; hours of tape must be fitted to the time constraint of a half-hour news program. The bias, if there is one, is less apt to be in ideology than in choosing what will most interest the audience or document the thesis the journalist has found in the material...