Word: docketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...establishment of a Docket Committee, the report said, could "save considerable time in Faculty discussion." This committee, which would consist of three Faculty Council members, would set a tentative docket for all Faculty meetings-a function now exercised by the Dean of the Faculty, who would chair the committee...
...Docket Committee would "receive proposals for Faculty action from all sources... convert each proposal into a docket item,... specify the procedure by which it should be considered,... propose the appropriate form of voting,... and... call the attention of the Faculty to the kind of timetable that should be followed...
...CRIMINAL JUSTICE. One of the oldest issues on the docket is capital punishment. Paradoxically, the crime-conscious U.S. has not executed a single person in more than two years. Whether that moratorium continues may depend largely on the fate of a Negro named William Maxwell, who has been condemned to death in Arkansas for raping a white woman. Among other things, Maxwell argues that his 14th Amendment right to due process was violated because there were no statutory standards to govern the jury's decision on whether he should be executed or imprisoned. Although the Justices are quite unlikely...
...Although those who advocate a particular political cause may disavow any intention of setting a precedent, the precedent is nonetheless set. Since we will no longer be able to exclude political matters from the docket by appeal to rule and precedent, we will be obliged to discuss each and to act on each on its merits. The proper concerns of the Faculty cannot long survive continued and inevitably impassioned political debate...
...Although those who advance a particular political cause may disavow any intention of setting a precedent, the precedent is nonetheless set. Since we will no longer be able to exclude political matters from the docket by appeal to rule and precedent, we will be obliged to discuss each and to act on each on its merits. The proper concerns of the Faculty cannot long survive continued and inevitably impassioned political debate...