Word: exempted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft law currently limits the combat-exempt status of a conscientious objector to one "who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." Virtually all draft boards have interpreted those words to mean that 1) a draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...petition for the abolition of grades states that "grades promote acquiescence and conformity among students and exempt teachers from the necessity of being relevant, interesting and well prepared in their classes." The entire enrollment of the course endorsed the proposal that grades be abolished...
...course, difficult to say exactly how much of the increased burden would fall upon Cambridge, and how much upon other cities, particularly when it is not clear how many housing units in the City would fall under rent control and how many would remain exempt. The pressure on housing created by the lack of new construction would flow in many directions, but in any case this stagnation would have important implications--ones seemingly ignored by the referendum campaign--on the cost of all types of housing available in Cambridge...
...power to give grades provides professors with a sanction for the exercise of authority in the educational process. Grades promote acquiescence and conformity among students and exempt teachers from the necessity of being relevant, interesting and well-prepared in their classes. Students refrain from criticizing mediocrity and dullness in part because of the fear of jeopardizing their grades, and in part because the process of grading has diverted attention away from learning itself. (We do not raise here the possibility the grades inspire political conformity between students and professors.) In general, the authoritarian relationship between teachers and students...
...issue is whether the Committee will reduce stipends for all students on probation, or will suggest that the Faculty change its policy and exempt all students on probation from stipend reductions...