Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order also provides certain safeguards against injustice to the employees, who can demand hearings before a Civil Service Commission board, have the right to counsel, can present witnesses in their own behalf and (in most cases) cross-examine adverse witnesses. But the system does not-and cannot-adhere strictly to judicial principles, with the "defendant" presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. For guilt in the legal sense is not involved. The idea is not to wait until the drunken employee gives away an important secret; it is to get rid of him beforehand...
...Bureau of Study Counsel was organized in 1948 to fill the legitimate need of extra-curricular help for men with academic problems. Oven a period of sixty years an ever-increasing number of students had succumbed to the enticement of the tutoring schools, which, with their "Pay as You Pass" plans, had a business grossing $250,000 annually...
...Stanley Salmen, who had led the CRIMSON's campaign against tutoring schools as an undergraduate, the new Bureau tried to enable the student to free himself from the need for extra help. In 1948 the supervisors were incorporated into the approximately eighty-man staff of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...policy decisions of the Bureau are made by a Faculty Committee on Study Counsel headed by Dean Leighton. The committee, representing a broad base of educational experience, is composed of the Dean of Freshmen, men from the Social Relations and science faculties, and the heads of the General Education program and the Office of Tests...
Perry feels that the Bureau of Study Counsel is fulfilling its intended function, "to provide a consultive service for students to assist them in breaking out of repetitive, circular thinking about their work and to obtain a sense of independence and mastery...