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...also difficult to understand students' strenuous objection to judgment by a disciplinary committee which includes their peers, given the precedents for such bodies at other universities, and the likelihood that students before such a committee would find a more sympathetic consideration of their motivations and interests than they might from one composed entirely of Administration or Faculty members. It is astounding that students would not welcome the opportunity to participate in and have an influence on the decisions of this committee...
...moment, praying for little rain. Early last week, torrential downpours damaged 5% of the supplies stranded at Assab. Worse still, heavy rains expected in many areas within the next two months will render roads muddy and impassable for relief trucks. Above all, they will increase the likelihood that both contagious diseases and death by exposure could sweep through the crowded camps...
...controversy has engulfed not only astronomers, geologists, paleontologists and astrophysicists but even evolutionary biologists. If the cyclic theory is true, the biologists argue, many assumptions about the course of evolution on earth--and even the likelihood of finding complex life forms on other planets--will be overturned. Says Whitmire: "Just the possibility that life here has been controlled by an astronomical event is very far reaching...
Despite the success of the Open University, the likelihood of depopulating our campuses through televised instruction seems remote. Residential universities offer compelling advantages. For many students, the opportunity for personal contact with faculty members is very important; think of the number of prominent graduates who point to a relationship or even a single encounter with a professor as a critical event in their college years. For most people, learning is also in part a group experience in which each student gains reinforcement from others. Thus, providers of televised learning, including the Open University, have found it necessary to offer tutorials...
...anger. The criminal-justice system is not working in America. It is absurdly slow, overburdened, understaffed, inefficient, random in its selection of who is to be punished. From the muggers' and rapists' perspective, the uncertainty of imprisonment, indeed the likelihood of avoiding it, is actually an incentive to commit crime. Out of 550,000 reported crimes in New York City in 1983, police made 106,000 arrests, but only 13,500 suspects wound up behind bars. Observes Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Richter Jr. of Charleston, S.C.: "The Goetz incident is just symptomatic of what's going on everywhere. People...