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...restates the aims of General Education in terms which have some relevance to what Gen Ed courses are actually doing today, the Doty Committee also attempts to bring under the more complete control of the Program participants in Freshman Seminars and students with Sophomore Standing. It was hard to forbid these exceptions to the requirements when the programs in question could claim to satisfy the Redbook's goals as well as the Gen Ed courses did. Now, at least, the Gen Ed Committee has a realistic standard against which to judge proposed substitutes for part of the usual...
...Christ said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me! for of such is the kingdom of heaven." He made no mention of original sin, infant baptism, limbo, etc. Why should...
...agree with this contention," wrote Justice Hugo Black in last week's majority opinion. Though Virginia is undoubtedly empowered to regulate law practice, said Black, it cannot forbid trainmen "to gather together" and seek "the wisest counsel" in pursuit of their legal rights. In sharp dissent, Justice Tom Clark argued that the decision "overthrows state regulation of the legal profession and relegates the practice of law to the level of a commercial enterprise." Even so, Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia means that lay organizations across the U.S. may now attempt all sorts of experimental group plans to put more lawyers...
Then, taking a new tack, Smith complained that while the bill guarantees against discrimination on grounds of race, it does not forbid discrimination on grounds of sex. Celler answered with the old saw about the French tourist in New York, who when asked what he thought of the Empire State Building, replied that it reminded him of sex. "Why?" asked his guide. "Everything does," said the Frenchman...
Some states believe that the Negro is not the only threat to their racial purity, and therefore forbid whites to marry American Indians, West Indians, Asiatic Indians, Mongolians, Malays, Chinese, Japanese, Africans, "half-breeds," and mestizos. In South Carolina, racism tinged with male chauvanism holds that a white man can marry anyone (a Mongolian, for example) other than an Indian, a Negro, a mulatto, or a "half-breed," while a white woman can marry only a white man. Let it not be thought, however, that the South Carolina legislature is entirely bigoted, for it generously declares, "Marriages... between white persons...