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...only flaw in the college's otherwise excellent decision is the provision that seniors who apply to live off-campus must be twenty-one. Surely the college does not believe that only a few months' difference in age makes a young woman responsible to live in her own apartment. If students were required to obtain parental permission to live off-campus, its in loco parentis responsibility would not prevent the college from allowing seniors under twenty-one to have their own apartments...
Despite this flaw, the experiment is a worthy one and should be studied carefully. But the results, whatever they may be, should not be judged as conclusive. First of all, 20 students is obviously a small sampling. Also, moving off-campus in February of one's senior year is considerably more troublesome than moving at the beginning of the school year. It is difficult to lease an apartment for a few months; it is inconvenient to hunt for an apartment while preparing for exams and writing a thesis. If for such reasons a comparatively small group of seniors applies, this...
...addition, the new plan would eliminate what members of the Doty Committee considered a basic structural flaw in the present Gen Ed program: the diverse backgrounds of the students taking lower-level Gen Ed courses. As outstanding schools offer their students more and more college-level preparation, the gap between their graduates and those of less advanced schools grows. Sophomores, too, may come into lower-level Gen Ed courses with usually good preparation in their freshman courses. To confine well-prepared students to lower-level Gen Ed courses will come to seen increasingly foolish, but to boost the standards...
...economic plan, which was designed to give British industry and labor a goal to aim at-and a bit of a kick in that direction. Drawn up by Economics Minister George Brown and in preparation for eleven months, the 494-page plan marshals impressive statistics, recites almost every known flaw in the industrial machine and insists that Britain speed up the growth of its economy to achieve a 25% gain in national output...
...last year's general convention, which implied, to him, that women were "ordered" to the diaconate just as men are. To close this loophole, a committee proposed a new resolution enumerating the "chief duties" of deaconesses that excluded distribution of Communion. Ex-Lawyer Pike quickly spied the flaw: distributing Communion could be deemed a "minor function" of deaconesses and thus permissible. Finally the committee brought in a no-nonsense substitute resolution that flatly stated: "Deaconesses may not be permitted to administer the elements of the Holy Communion...