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Faculty and administrators at the School of Public Health (SPH) will tell the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) by Feb. 28 whether the conflict between Dr. Howard S. Hiatt, dean of SPH, and some members of his faculty has "constrained the educational objectives of the school, Dr. Elkan Blout, dean of Academic Affairs at the school, said yesterday...
Last August, 17 tenured faculty members and a majority of junior faculty members signed a petition to President Bok asking for Hiatt's resignation. The petition cited Hiatt's alleged "neglect of the collegial process," and disregard of faculty opinion in Hiatt's administration of the School of Public Health...
Newer research, however, challenges that assumption. The National Institute of Mental Health is preparing a favorable report about the effects of joint custody on children. A Virginia study of 96 couples and their children associated father absence with disruptions in the children's social and school life. Christine Rosenthal, a Brandeis University sociologist who studied 127 joint-and sole-custody fathers, was impressed by how well the arrangements worked among those who remarried. And a New York study of 40 divorced men found that joint-custody fathers were happier, closer to their children and had fewer problems with...
...over proposed constitutional amendments that would overturn the 1973 ruling. Today the struggle is centered mainly on the issue of public funding of abortion, specifically the federal law that limits Medicaid payments for abortions to cases involving rape, incest or serious threats to the mother's life or health. Before the law was passed in 1977, 209 liberal Protestants and Jews issued a "Call to Concern" that not only urged Medicaid abortions for any reason but also charged that Catholic lobbying presented a "serious threat to religious liberty...
...save the mother's life include the various Eastern Orthodox churches, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, most members of the Churches of Christ, "independent" Christian Churches, the American Baptist Association, the Baptist Bible Fellowship and other conservative Protestant groups. Orthodox Judaism is willing to consider abortion for serious health reasons, while the Mormons and the 35 smallish denominations in the National Association of Evangelicals are also open to it in cases of rape. Three of the four largest black Protestant denominations have issued antiabortion statements. This anti-abortion bloc encompasses not only 49 million Roman Catholics but also...