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Dates: during 1980-1989
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November 12, 1988-A student committee publishes a survey of student opinion on the dean search. Sixty percent of respondents say the new dean's top priority should be legal education. In the section on specific candidates, Clark receives mixed reviews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Selection of a Dean | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

While the logjam over the missile situation appears to be breaking, Baker's biggest problem is Gorbachev and the inroads he has made in Western European public opinion, a U.S. official said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baker Competes With Gorbachev Popularity | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...court has said the death penalty is legal, but political leaders are reluctant to question whether we as a society want to put it to work. Public opinion studies, which have tilted both ways in the past 25 years, now show overwhelming support for the death sentence. Politicians who fan the fires are seeking heat, not light, and they make reasoned discussion difficult. Capital punishment tells us a lot about ourselves and our willingness to create a moral code that rises above destructive anger and the call for revenge in kind. We seem to have a double standard about death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Politicians, Voters and Voltage | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...trying to ignore for the moment that the decision about implementing a partial random lottery housing system disregarded student opinion. I'll pretend that, without considering the merits of university decisions, students should have no voice in making the policies that affect only them. With the random lottery system, there are already enough problems without raising this objection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lottery | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

...agree with these latter arguments. In my opinion, being Jewish means more than being a stereotypical WASP who dances the horah. Jewish history, interests, and morality demand that Jews reach out to other minorities in the interests of justice and fairness...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A New Jewish Vision | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

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