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...organized, with no strict hierarchy, the first arrests were big ones. Schweitzer became a leader of the Freemen after a tax dispute in the late 1970s. Using ideas common to the Posse Comitatus and other rightist fringe groups, they cobbled a doctrine out of bits and pieces of the Magna Carta, the Bible, the Constitution and other sources to argue that the Federal Government represents an illegal usurpation of the common-law power of localities. The ideas are now spread by groups under a variety of names--Freemen, We the People, People for Constitutional Courts, even the Civil Rights Task...
...earlier proposal by the Economics Department's Student Advisory Committee would have allowed students to graduate magna cum laude without writing a thesis...
According to Chamberlain, discussions at the faculty meeting about removing the thesis requirement for magna honors were "inconclusive...
This "advanced course track" which would substitute for the senior thesis consists of a class in econometrics and a writing course, Metrick said. Theses will still be required for those wishing to graduate magna or summa...
...like the proposal better the way it was," Nayantara D. Hensel '97 said. "I think that people are basically now going to have to make the choice to do recruiting and not do magna and summa or not do recruiting and write a thesis and have a chance at getting magna or summa...