Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Panama Canal treaty through the Senate last month was roughly the equivalent of putting a big tanker through the waterway: there was no room to spare. The second treaty, providing for the gradual transfer of authority to Panama by the year 2000, is expected to have an equally narrow passage when it comes up for a vote on April 18. Opponents of the treaty have intensified their pressure on wavering Senators, and a defeat of the second treaty would force renegotiation of the entire agreement, with potentially explosive consequences. Seldom, in fact, has a project that is so clearly...
...human beings are qualitatively unique organisms. Without being spiritualistic, psychology and sociology show that the amazing capacity of the human brain and the development of a consciousness have created an enormous chasm between humans and other species--a chasm Devore naively claims "has almost disappeared and is now a narrow cleft." One wonders how Devore can make such a statement when the human evidence for his theories is simply nonexistent. The sociobiologists offer no evidence meeting the most basic requirements of an experimental design that such traits as xenophobia, religion, and social dominance are in any way coded...
...ethics code revision is clearly needed, and the best in the profession want to see it done ?and enforced. "Lawyering," suggests Eric Schnapper, a New York public interest attorney, "is within the relatively narrow category of occupations where borderline dishonesty is fairly lucrative. In many instances, the very art of the lawyer is a sort of calculated disregard of the law or at least of ordinary notions of morality." Under the current code, he notes, only selected and flagrant violations result in a disbarment. Writes Schnapper: "One searches in vain for a lawyer disciplined for failing to give free...
...liberal education. Several proposals before the Faculty attempt to do this. The plan proposed by William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, would insure that each student is fully proficient in two separate areas of study, thus allowing students to select their own interests and eliminating narrow pre-professionalism. Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has proposed a plan that would offer students the guidance of the Core without depriving them of the freedom to design their own curriculum. Other Faculty suggestions include expanding the counseling program, providing more introductory-level courses for non-concentrators...
...broad liberal arts aducation, by requiring them to take courses in certain selected disciplines. They say the Core will supply students with a much needed guideline for selecting among the thousands of courses offered. Supporters also view the Core as a measure to prevent pre-professionalism from dictating a narrow course of study to students...