Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat would savor right away, and there are likely to be weeks of painful maneuvering and countermaneu-vering before they are willing to face that drastic ultimate step. In the meantime, the violent voices resounding through the streets of Italy can be counted on to add their own strident note of urgency...
...just-released study by the National Institute of Education, titled Violent Schools-Safe Schools, confirms the problem in detail. Commissioned by Congress in 1974 in response to tales of classroom horror, the 247-page report offers a slightly encouraging note: violence has tapered off in the 4,000 schools profiled since the early '70s. Nonetheless, the report notes that 25% of American schools, about 20,500, suffer from moderately serious to serious problems of vandalism, personal attack and thievery. In 1978, it estimates, one out of every nine secondary school students will have something stolen in a typical month...
...parties, and as soon as Travolta bought his DC-3, he flew several members of the crew to Las Vegas for a weekend. There was so much jollity on the Paramount set that Jack Nicholson, who was making Goin' South on the next sound stage, sent over a note: "Listen, either put me in the movie, or turn off the noise." The whole thing, says Travolta, was "what the English would call a romp...
...these problems, we must first closely examine the proposed composition of the CRR (seven faculty, six students). Faculty members will still command a majority. The reform proposals triumphantly note that the faculty chairman "will vote only to break a tie." This is meaningless propaganda: the faculty chairman will vote only when his vote counts. The CRR is small, and a tie is not at all unlikely. Also, students might have to be disqualified, as they were after the 1969 strike, from the CRR, if they participated in the events under judgment, thus increasing the faculty majority. Indeed, 46 per cent...
Brand's display will remain in the case until someone else requests to use it, Bonde said. He added, "A limit will be imposed if there is a demand." Anyone wishing to post a display or ask questions should call or leave a note in the Union secretary's office, she said...