Word: functional
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Constitution. Last year the California Supreme Court agreed. "When the electorate assumes the lawmaking function," said the court, "the electorate is as much a state agency as any of its elected officials...
...admired, socially acceptable and remarkably well educated. Quarterback Charley Johnson of pro football's St. Louis Cardinals is currently studying for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering; Frank Ryan of the Cleveland Browns already has his Ph.D. (his dissertation: "A Characterization of the Set of Asymptotic Values of a Function Holomorphic in the Unit Disc"), and during the off season he is an assistant professor of mathematics at Case Institute of Technology. Coach Harold Laycoe of the Portland, Ore., Buckaroos says with wonderment: "We even have a sprinkling of college graduates in pro hockey now. When I broke...
Speaking for the court in four cases, Justice William O. Douglas quoted a point from the Reynolds decision: "Political subdivisions of states-counties, cities or whatever-never were and never have been considered sovereign entities." Instead, said Justice Douglas, such subdivisions function as instruments of the state, which can make rules for choosing local administrators by any method it pleases. Unless the rules violate federal rights (by race discrimination for example), said Douglas, "we see nothing in the Constitution to prevent experimentation...
...Federation and the Administration did seem to reach an uneasy agreement on the other major issue--that the present yardsticks for measuring the fifth-time teaching load contain inequities that should be eliminated. But they split sharply on the status and function of teaching fellows: the University has taken the very disturbing position that teaching fellows are not really Harvard employees but graduate students who teach as only a sideline. Throughout the Federation's campaign, the University has treated the group as though it represented only graduate students, not what one Federation leader called "the junior faculty of the junior...
Dean Monro says that AAAAS, today, performs three valuable functions: it provides the Negro student with a place where "he can take off his shoes and be like people." Second, "It's clear that the Negro people have to develop their own institutional strength if they're going to get anywhere. That's the way our society works, and that's the way it will continue to work." And third, it helps, especially through its Journal, to put new concepts and formulations into language, a vital function and one that "must be done from a black point of view...