Word: membership
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Valerie Coel, of Lexington, Ma., came to MIT with excellent credentials: a B.S. from Vassar, an I.Q. of 163, as well as a membership in Mensa, the international "genius society...
Moreover, such a body would be inconsistent with the purposes of a University. Undergraduate membership at Harvard is a privilege, not a right, which the University can take away or violate. Faculty and adminstrators, however, are hired members of the University, responsible only to their employers: Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence or President Derek C. Bok. All Harvard members, however, retain both their constitutional rights and the legal means to protect them...
...members, the board described Hayes' crusade as "ungentlemanly." So far, no disciplinary action has been announced. The prowomen faction vowed to push ahead. "The club has suffered from this exclusionary policy," said an unrepentant Hayes last week. "We have cut ourselves off from society." The last time the membership was surveyed on the issue, in 1980, 41% supported the admission of women...
Given the sect's penchant for put-ons, as well as its reportedly declining membership and lawsuits concerning the takeover of Antelope, outsiders did not know what to make of the bhagwan's statements. Neither, evidently, did the six different groups of lawmen that jointly began examining the guru's charges last week: the Oregon state police, the FBI, the Wasco County sheriff, the Dalles police, the state attorney general's office and the U.S. Attorney's office. Wasco County District Attorney Bernard L. Smith said at week's end that his office will coordinate an investigation of the situation...
...laity, 78% did not think it was the church's place "to be an agent of political change in the United States"; 76% thought the church should concentrate on "worship and spiritual matters" more than on political issues. From 1965 to 1983 the church suffered an 18% decline in membership, and a forthcoming book will warn that the Episcopalians and similar liberal denominations are aging far more rapidly than other religious groups and losing their ability to hold teenagers and win adult converts. Browning, however, thinks that the decline is over. Whatever pollsters say, he is convinced that his church...