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...traditional tenure requirements. Grading, they suggested, "is not only unreliable and subjective, but has an insidious effect on student-faculty relationships." As for tenure, if the School was going to redefine academic standards for students and admissions requirements for black students, it was only logical to extend the new criteria of "intellectual vigor" to faculty. Faculty members should also be allowed to amass "unorthodox educational or community experience" without putting their jobs on the line...
...manner in which it was seized, the legality of the prior court action, and the definition of obscenity in the individual situation. Definitions have been vague ever since the landmark Roth decision of 1957, eight years before Fortas was appointed an Associate Justice. That decision established several broad criteria of tolerance, all of which have created problems of interpretation...
...formal, prearranged confrontation between the Old and New Politics. Central Casting could have produced no better field marshal for the Old Politics army. Like some 18th century European general, Mayor Daley chose the place of battle, formed his battalions, set his lines of defense, and established his criteria for defeat or victory: there would be no disturbances in the streets of Chicago. The leftist youth leaders-Tom Hayden, David Dillinger, Jerry Rubin-drew up their counterstrategy and took the field, determined to prove that Daley's boast was hollow. On those terms, victory clearly went to the rebels...
Just two months ago, when Dr. Christiaan Barnard remarked that he would not hesitate to remove a still-beating heart for transplantation if the donor had suffered indisputable "brain death," the suggestion still seemed shocking to many surgeons. Since then, heart transplants have become increasingly common and the criteria of brain death generally agreed upon. Thus, gathering last week in Manhattan, most of the world's transplant surgeons accepted the idea of a beating-heart transplant with Barnardian aplomb...
...documents were remarkably similar. Although the Sydney assembly could not agree on a precise definition of death, there is now a virtually worldwide consensus on the following criteria for establishing that irreversible coma, or death, has indeed occurred...