Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recourse to a fair disciplinary body is necessary for all students. Especially considering the Administrative Board's closed procedures that offer students few formal protections, a new appeals body for all sorts of cases would be welcome. A committee with student representatives, which observes explicit protections of due process and which gives students the right to an open hearing, would protect students' rights regardless of the extraneous circumstances of the charges brought against them. But unless such a new disciplinary committee is an appeals body, it will fall into the same trap that mired the CRR in controversy over questions...
...senator on most issues. However, he does oppose a recent bill that LoPresti sponsored as chairman of the State Senate Judiciary Committee. If passed, it would abolish a practice that allows defendants convicted by a judge to demand a trial by jury "de novo" without going through a formal appeal process...
...quarter-century, the Chinese and East Europeans have been bitter ideological enemies. All East bloc governments except Rumania froze relations with China in the early 1960s, following Mao Tse-tung's falling out with Moscow over doctrinal disagreements. Honecker's trip to China last week was the first formal state visit by a Warsaw Pact Communist Party chief since that chilly era, and it signaled what Hu called a "new phase" in relations between the two countries. It came less than a month after a more modest working visit by Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski of Poland. Next year could produce...
Grant says he has been giving Drew a lot of advice. "I tell him not to panic, not to over-study and warn him about the food." Drew says that Grant told him he would be well-prepared and would not have any problems despite his lack of formal education...
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