Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate going up among the young people in the country," Walters admits, but he adds quickly that this trend has not hit Harvard. He doesn't beat around the bush; when you ask him why students here don't fit into national molds, he says simply, "I don't know...
...therapist and a client are kept in strictest confidence unless someone's life is in danger or serious bodily harm to someonw is threatened." Harvard students, Walters asserts, are not concerned with the stigma attached to seeing a psychiatrist. "Most people that come to the MHS, he says, "know how to use it, how what they want, and use it well...
...Public Interest Group (NYPIRG) included in its 1978 legislative agenda--right beside its diatribes on funeral costs and sugar content--the promise to work for a "truth in testing" bill, because "students and others whose careers are depending on the results of machine-correctable examinations have a right to know the significance of these tests...
...predicting exactly what will happen to the testing industry once the exams are disclosed. "Our basic thesis is that since the tests play such an important role in determining what colleges, professional schools, and professions people end up in, we all have a right to know what the exams mean," Ed Hanley, a Nader employee who lobbied for the truth-in-testing bill in Albany last year, says. Obviously, though, the right-to-know issue wouldn't be vital unless there was some hint the tests weren't worthwhile. "This will enable us to resolve once...
Meanwhile, everyone is watching with interest. "We're waiting to see how the law turns out," truth-in-testing advocate McLean says. "We won't know anything definite until the law goes into effect January 1," admissions official Geraghty declares, "We need to see how this works out before we go ahead and do it on a larger scale," pleads ETS's Churchill. Only Malkin is making concrete predictions: "It should be interesting," he says...