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Plainly the citizen's plight is not subject to quickie remedy. Yet any solution would have to entail a shift in the relationship between the priests of knowledge and the lay public. The expert will have to play a more conscious role as citizen, just as the ordinary American will have to become ever more a student of technical lore. The learned elite will doubtless remain indispensable. Still, the fact that they are exalted over the public should not mean that they are excused from responsibility to it-not unless the Jeffersonian notion of popular self-rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A New Distrust of the Experts | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...said a 14-meal plan is a possibility, but would entail stricter dining-hall controls and would only be about $100 cheaper than the current 21-meal system...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Poll Shows Freshman Favor Distribution of Course Outlines | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

However, the CHUL proposals allow CHUL to set case-by-case the necessary percentage for student boycott approval depending on the costs a particular boycott would entail. This policy is misguided. Boycott referenda should be uniformly decided by a simple majority, and they should be binding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boycott Plan | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard-Yenching Library, the nation's largest Chinese library, may have to convert to a new system of transliterating Chinese characters into English that would entail creating a separate card catalogue written according to that system...

Author: By Nancy R. Page, | Title: Yenching May Have to Adopt New Transliteration System | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...authority to pursue all questions about the peanut loans. At one point, the company was $500,000 behind in its payments. Implicit in the investigation is the question of whether any of the loan money was illegally used in Carter's campaign in 1976. The investigation will certainly entail a detailed look at the tangled affairs of Billy Carter, who operated the family business while his brother was running for the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Have a Job to Do | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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