Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already limited legislative and investigative functions and turn it into a consultative council that would have no power at all. Finally, De Gaulle wants to change the order of succession so that the president of the Senate no longer would become interim head of state in the event of the death or disability of the elected President. That function would go to the Premier, a change that would give De Gaulle more say in picking the next resident of the Elysée Palace...
From the computer's carefully recorded data, Edwards has learned that people on the whole make remarkably rational decisions. Nevertheless, more than a third of the participants become befogged by superstitions, biases and logical incoherences. Most people, for example, regard an event as more likely to occur if they stand to lose by its occurrence rather than gain by it. Also, they tend to inflate the value of the money they stand to win-that is, a $10 bet means more to them emotionally than five $2 bets...
...Corporation would want to protect the right of a minority of students to participate in ROTC as an extracurricular activity even if a majority of students and Faculty voted otherwise. What the Corporation would actually do in the unlikely event the Faculty passed such a vote was a point I specifically left open...
...unsatisfactory is not our central concern, nor that of the black students association (although the very fact that the programs were changed so quickly raises serious doubts as to the sincerity of the standing Faculty Committee's proposals). The issue raised here would have been raised in any event. This is the issue of irresponsible use of power. The decision-making process has been misused, the pact of the Rosovsky Report has been violated. these are the central issues. The standing Faculty Committee cannot plead ignorance or that they misunderstood their function. The action they took is clearly illegitimate...
...seven (7) candidates in the tenure members. Each Faculty member will vote for seven (7) candidates in the tenure category and two (2) candidates in the non-tenure category on the ballot provided. Any candidate receiving a majority on the first ballot will be declared elected. In the event that seven tenure and two non-tenure members of the Faculty are thus elected, the election will be ended. Otherwise, a second ballot will be prepared as follows...