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...field hockey team will meet Bates, Worcester State, and Bridgeport as its draw in the tournament today. The tournament is unusual in that no overall winner is named. Instead, the focus is on individual performance and the best players will be chosen to play in qualifying tournaments for the Nationals to be held over Thanksgiving. The strongest 33 players from the 18 competing colleges will make up the all-star teams to play in the sectional rounds...
Field also indicated that Radcliffe's team strategy would not be altered because the tournament's focus is on the individual. She expects Radcliffe to beat Bates and Bridgeport, but Worcester State could be a close, tough match...
Rosovsky has already started to tackle certain key questions regarding the focus of their reports. His decision to develop broad recommendations instead of the originally expected nuts-and-bolts suggestions has brought the task forces' reports into the same arena that submerged the Yale and Princeton reports. Most of the task force chairmen said last week that the majority of their recommendations will fall in the nut-and-bolts category - small, mostly administrative recommendations - that may not have to come before the Faculty. But James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and the chairman of the core curriculum task force...
Rudenstine, after his work with the Bressler committee, says that other committees like it need both nut-and-bolts and broad recommendations. Without a wide focus, he says, the committees become just inventory-takers, which isn't enough. Their role should be one of planning and providing for changes that would otherwise be implemented on a slower, more haphazard basis, he says...
...liberals are largely a question of emphasis, but they are significant nonetheless. Convention '75 candidates applaud downzoning-which limits the number of units that can be built in a given area-and stress the importance of preserving neighborhoods against the encroachments of the universities and commercial developers. Independents focus instead on the need to bring businesses and high rent housing into Cambridge to increase the property tax base, a task they say would be facilitated by the end of rent control and the curtailment of downzoning. At the other extreme, non-incumbent John Brode '52 (CC '75), formerly...