Word: council
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty Council on Wednesday discussed with junior faculty members in the Afro-American Studies Department a proposal to set up a temporary executive committee of senior Faculty members to govern the department...
...Council, in fact, considered grading reform as a possible solution when it reviewed alternatives last month, but rejected it in favor of transcript tampering. Perhaps they should think again...
...Council's solution addresses only the superficial issue of abuse of the medical excuse option. It fails to tackle the underlying reason for the trend: increasing grade anxiety among students, especially those competing for admission to professional schools. Marking transcripts will not ease pre-professional pressures, but instead only add to the worries of students...
...Council argues the policy will not hurt any student who is genuinely ill, because a senior tutor could explain the reason for a medical excuse in a letter appended to a student's transcript. But often the reasons behind a sick-out--though legitimate--are not as simply explained as a broken leg or German Measles. Undergraduates who ask for excuses because of personal problems or serious mental distress might not want to advertise these private matters in a letter that will go into their permanent University record...
Unfortunately, the history of Congressional neglect, of public rights toward the nuclear power industry has been exacerbated by the Supreme Court and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Writing for the majority in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power v. Natural Resources Defence Council (1978), Justice Rehnquist held that community and environmental representatives had no right to question either private industry spokesmen or agency officials about the quality and meaning of their data and findings at NRC licensing hearings. Rehnquist rode roughshod over the public, turning the administrative hearing procedure into an empty exercise where the hallmark of due process, the right to question...