Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theodore Hesburgh, 51, Notre Dame's president, will become new chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Since Hesburgh is a strong supporter of equal rights, the appointment may possibly assuage Nixon's less militant black critics. A member of the commission since 1957, Hesburgh has long been admired by Nixon. He won the President's special commendation last month-and stirred considerable controversy-when he warned that if demonstrators at Notre Dame broke the law, they would have 20 minutes either to repent or be expelled. Though it has no direct power, the commission nevertheless...
Whatever happens in next year's election, Newark's problems will not go away. If the city is to provide its citizens with anything approximating equal opportunity, it will need much more state and federal aid. With acid eloquence, Mayor Addonizio recently declared: "America is not prepared to save its cities, and the cities are not in a position to save themselves." If this situation continues, Newark and cities like it will become, in effect, as inherently unequal as the rural South in the days of Jim Crow...
...identified with specific creatures (the Greek word zodiakos means "pertaining to animals") is obscure. Only two of the zodiacal signs bear any visible relation to actual arrangements of stars in the sky. One is Gemini (the Twins), which consists of two principal bright stars (Castor and Pollux) of almost equal magnitude. The other is Scorpio, with a grouping of 15 stars reminiscent of the stinging tail of that dangerous insect, common in the Middle East...
...planning committee of the council includes George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Richard M. Neustadt '69. Neustadt, a council spokesman, stressed that the group was "not in any sense radical," and included "nearly equal proportions" of former supporters of Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48, Senator Eugene J. McCarthy and former Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey...
...Wolff Report recommendations as they may apply to each department is the first opportunity for graduate students to become involved in decision-making committees. When committees are formed in each department to enact curriculum changes, graduate students should not only be consulted as to their reactions, but given equal voting status. This, not the Faculty vote in April, will honestly test how willing the Faculty is to accept its graduate students as scholarly equals...