Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under current Cambridge law, purchasers of individual units can evict tenants and then let the developers turn the apartments into condos. Graham's bill would close that loophole, which she says has allowed close to 2000 condominium conversions over the last few years. segment of the community was galvanized yesterday "most of Holcombe's grievances were well-founded...
...curriculum is truly multi-disciplinary--representing many different approaches to urban policy problems. While faculty with graduate degrees in economics are the single largest group in the department they represent about one third of the total number. The faculty also includes men and women with training in planning, geography, law, public policy, political science, English, sociology, engineering, public administration, education, business, and social ethics. Regardless of their disciplinary background, moreover, faculty have made meaningful contributions to planning practice and scholarship...
...trade unions. The resolution is sponsored by a group of Cornell students called the Corportate Responsibility Project, which studies its University's investment practices and buys stock in specific companies so it can introduce shareholder resolutions. Cornell's student trustees serve on the project, as well as undergraduates and law students. The money to purchase stocks comes partly from student fees...
...mind is whether Gus Yates's death on Mt. Katahdin--had it taken place--would have affected only him. Presumably he, like most of us, has a circle of family and friends whose lives would be severely disrupted by his loss. Indeed, I would guess that the law which he broke was passed at the urging of survivors of solitary climbers less lucky than...
Whether a sense of personal and social responsibility should be enforced by law is a legitimate question; I'm not at all certain that it should. But unless Mr. Yates--"individualistic and independent" though he is--is truly alone in the world, he has a duty to himself and to those who care about him not to endanger his own life unnecessarily. He should not climb dangerous mountains alone--legally or otherwise. Kim Hasse Freshman Proctor