Word: laws
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...Cambridge Peace and Freedom Party will launch a campaign to gather 8000 signatures for a petition calling for a city-wide rent control law...
Late last spring, the faculty of Columbia created a committee to investigate and evaluate the disturbances on campus during April and May. The committee was chaired by Archibald Cox, Professor of Law at Harvard, and its "General Observations," which conclude its recently released report, are reprinted below...
...demonstrators were refused a public hearing and preemptorily punished. Although the older paternalistic procedures probably gave much greater protection to most student offenders, there is wide and justified campus support for the principles (1) that a student is no less entitled to due process of law than one charged with a public offense and (2) that students should share in disciplinary procedures as part of the right of participation in decisions affecting their interests...
...they did not prevail. They must also be convinced that the opportunities for change are open and the goals and stance of the enterprise are sufficiently right for it to deserve their loytlty despite specific points of disagreement. Administrative intractability and resistance to change contribute to the breakdown of law and order...
...verify a theory and spend most of its time expressing a point of view and using the facts to prove its case. And as such, Crisis at Columbia is unlikely to produce the kind of controversy and criticism that have surrounded the Warren Commission Report since its publication. Harvard law professor Archibald Cox and his four colleagues--one of whom was Dana L. Farnsworth, director of Harvard's Health Services--simply tried to find out what happened at Columbia and why. They did not refuse to talk to any witnesses who could offer anything; in fact, Columbia...