Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate between doctors and lawyers threatens to heat up once again as a more significant case looms on the Supreme Judicial Court's docket. The court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in September in Hall v. Myers, a case that deals with the appropriateness of euthanasia for any patient, competent or incompetent. It involves a prisoner on renal dialysis who wanted to stop his treatments and be allowed to die. The Suffold Superior Court has ruled that the prison commissioner could force the prisoner to keep taking his life-saving treatment...
...addressed this concern. It recommended a number of structural changes designed to open up decision-making in the University, both to faculty and students. The Fainsod Committee set up the Faculty Council, the Commitees on Undergraduate and Graduate Education, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, and the Faculty docket committee. The report also suggested the present practice of consultation between administration and Faculy in selecting the University president, administrative deans and honorary degree holders...
...oversee educational policy, to foresee committee appointments, and to plan priorities for Faculty growth and development. The council was designed to grant a larger number of Faculty members the chance to participate in designing educational policy in cooperation with the dean of the Faculty. The report also instituted a docket committee to set the Faculty agendas, rather than allowing the dean of the Faculty to do it himself. Finally, in a tactfully worded statement that nevertheless appeared to express the Faculty's anger toward many administrative deans, the committee called for most senior deanships to be filled by teaching members...
...other business, the Faculty postponed its debate on corporate investments in South Africa, scheduled as the last item on the docket yesterday, after the discussion on Extension Studies degrees ran late...
...meeting that if a majority of students favored renaming the library, the issue would be put on the Corporation's agenda. But now, after the results of the Student Assembly poll are in, he says "an expression of student opinion does not automatically put the issue on the Corporation docket...