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...Flemings are willing to say to young people, or to anybody. They assiduously avoid drawing conclusions or giving advice on the subject of sex. "I would not presume to tell anybody how to proceed about anything," says Anne. "If this will help somebody, terrific. But it's not a handbook." And Karl adds, "My expertise ends at raising chickens and growing tomatoes...
...first rule in the Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations is that everyone must know the rules. Students caught deliberately sneaking a book out of the library are "ordinarily requested to withdraw," posters over 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches require prior approval of the dean, and no student may play "boisterous games in the Yard." The rules seem fairly innocuous...
...additions to this year's handbook was a regulation stating that anyone who hasn't paid his bill by the start of the term "will not be allowed to register and is subject to disciplinary action" [emphasis added]. The effect of this rule is fairly traumatic on a lot of students, especially since the Office of Fiscal Services doesn't send bills home during the summer, just complicated "worksheets." The policy gets results--one student from San Francisco bought a blank check at Bob Slate's and wrote out a $3000 check on a nonexistent account in a California bank...
...typewritten pages (single-line items, double-spaced) to make up a list last year of all the innovations, ideas, and administrative changes and goals that it has instituted in the last four years under Hall's guidance. Hall is proud to tick off items from the list--the administrative handbook, weekly staff meetings between the directors of all administrative departments, the Delta 2000 computer, centralizing the personnel office, and a whole host of gadgets and programs. All these items add up to a major effort to centralize, automate, computerize and economize administrative services at Harvard. When measured solely...
...have ordinances specifically forbidding it, gays can generally be barred or evicted from privately owned housing, without legal recourse. "Until recently, no avowed homosexual dared apply to medical or law schools," says Lawyer Marilyn Haft, co-author of The Rights of Gay People, a new American Civil Liberties Union handbook. "Now the political climate is such that it is less likely that a qualified homosexual applicant would be rejected out of hand." Homosexuals are still regarded as insurance risks, and state licensing laws implicitly ban them from certain professions...