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Three of the Administration's five housing options violate these criteria. The most repugnant alternative is the 1-1-2 plan, which would house freshmen in the Quad and sophomores in the Yard and leave only juniors and seniors in the River Houses. The system would eliminate the Quad Houses with their even sex ratio and deprive all first-year students of an opportunity to live in a House with supportive upperclassmen. Even worse, 1-1-2 would force students into a second isolated, one-class year. This may be healthy for class-giving at 25th reunions but it certainly...
...Diamond insisted that the machine could not be turned off, for "no physician will ever interrupt a device that is performing lifesaving functions." The experts agreed that despite the seriousness of Karen's condition, she meets none of the accepted criteria for determining death. She has not suffered "brain death," the legal measure of death in eight states-though not New Jersey. An electroencephalograph shows that there is still brain activity. She has, on occasion, breathed spontaneously, for up to half an hour, though most experts doubt that she could do so much longer without...
Until recently, those were the two key elements in a ruling of life or death. Today, however, most doctors place at least as much importance on the condition of the brain. They have generally accepted the criteria suggested in 1968 by researchers at Harvard University: no spontaneous respiration, no reflexive response to external stimuli or to pain, no brain activity showing on an EEG checked first by one observer then again by another 24 hours later. If these criteria hold, most doctors then assume that even if machines are keeping the patient alive, his brain is dead...
...observer-observed distortion with the case worker seems to be just a personal quirk; perhaps an example of how workers in a welfare department must pretend, in pseudo-scientific terms, that their decisions are based on objective criteria. The case of the black woman is part of a more easily defined phenomenon: people coming into welfare offices to get money when they're broke, at the end of the line, and have to do whatever they can do to get that money, including exploiting a camera filming case workers...
John P. Nelson Jr., Perkins's attorney, Tuesday said the judge's argument concerning membership restrictions on the basis of subjective criteria apart from race is "a lot of crap." He said "there never have been whites denied membership...