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...February 7 Crimson article on the decision of the Department of Psychology and Social Relations to change its name to Psychology is misleading in one important way. The Department of Social Relations was an inter-disciplinary department that combined all of sociology with cultural anthropology plus some of cognitive psychology and all of personality, social, and development psychology. I believe it was always the only such department in the world and in its time it was magnificent. In deciding to change the department's name, the intention is simply to recognize the fact that we no longer have members...
...decision came quietly, but the reverberations are now sounding around the world. On Nov. 14, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an autonomous judicial arm of the 32-member Organization of American States, ruled 7 to 0 that a law requiring the licensing of journa lists violated the right to free expression. Stephen Schmidt, an American reporter, had been found guilty in 1983 of practicing journalism in Costa Rica without a required license and had received a three-month suspended sentence from that nation's Supreme Court. In its landmark ruling, the human rights court, which sits...
...political prisoners were said to be tortured. In a deliberate effort to break the system, Schmidt, then an investigative reporter for San Jose's English language Tico Times and for the Spanish language daily La Prensa Libre, challenged the Costa Rican colegio at a San Jose meeting of the Inter- American Press Association (IAPA) in 1980. "I'm covering this meeting illegally," he announced. "Let me work or sue me." The colegio responded to the dare, and a criminal suit followed. At his first trial in 1983, Schmidt was acquitted; a lower court ruled that he had indeed violated local...
Lubbers praised the concept of inter-superpower viewing, calling it "vastly educational." Speaking of Creighton's experience, he said, "The initial response was mystification. Imagine the amazement of students who had seen Russia as something extremely mysterious, if not frightening...
...Administrators are probably worried that this would encourage large parties where "anyone off the street could come in and pay," as one house master said. Such a claim does not give much credit to house committees, who could require student I.D.'s, make money off the parties, and encourage inter-house mingling...