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...example of this weakness is the CHUL, the largest and hypothetically the most powerful committee at Harvard. It is the only committee that brings students, faculty and administrators together on a regular basis to discuss issues affecting all undergraduates. The intent of the CHUL is to allow students to have a say in how Harvard College is administered. The committee deals with issues such as the number of freshmen that will be assigned to live at Radcliffe instead of Harvard Yard, or the number of women that will be admitted to Harvard, or whether or not to abolish...
...Washington, D.C., between now and the end of the Bicentennial celebration. But one Washington resident, a senior official in the Federal Communications Commission, has undertaken a bitter campaign to keep Americans away from their capital. William B. Ray, 67, has written to 91 of the nation's largest newspapers urging tourists to avoid Washington "this year, next year and every year until the District of Columbia and Federal Government are able to exercise a reasonable degree of control over crime...
...injured. Cunhal himself narrowly escaped injury when a mob attacked a rally at which he was speaking in Alcobaça, north of Lisbon. Three days later, when the military said it could not guarantee his safety, Cunhal canceled a scheduled rally in Oporto, the country's second largest city...
...conservative Azores (pop. 300,000), thousands of local farmers marched through the streets of Angra do Heroismo, the second largest city in the islands, demanding that the offices of the Communist Party and the leftist Democratic Movement Party (M.D.P.) be closed. After trying to lynch one Communist sympathizer and kicking and beating three M.D.P. members, the mob surrounded the Communist Party headquarters with tractors, then set the building ablaze with Molotov cocktails. Fifteen persons were injured...
...1950s, when many women's colleges sought male professors as a sign of progressiveness and academic seriousness. In any case, today 71 colleges-a record-now have women in the president's chair, including Hunter, Wellesley, Goucher and Wheaton. Last month Smith College, the nation's largest private women's college (2,600 students)-and the school that produced Feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Sylvia Plath-installed its first woman president. She is Jill Ker Conway, 40, an Australian who grew up on a sheep ranch and obtained a Ph.D. in history from Harvard...