Word: placement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...From your placement of the story on abortion laws [Feb. 10], it appears that this is a religious question. Then why is it being fought in legislatures? Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Laws cannot be discussed exclusive of morality, but this argument begins to sound like a case of "Well, if we can't enforce our views on morality by theological methods, then we'll enforce them legally." Thanks, but I'll go to hell...
...Educational Testing Service is still accepting applications for the March 31 and April 8 draft deferments tests. Originally the application deadline was Feb. 10. The ETS can not guarantee placement for late applicants. Students already issued tickets for the March 11 exam and who have a conflict may also apply for one of the other two dates. Write to ETS (Selective Service Examining Section), Box 988, Princeton, N.J. 08540. M.I.T. will be a test center on March 11 and April 8. Northeastern University is the nearest center for the March 31 test...
...keeps New Yorkers coming to its three-building, modern "campus" in Greenwich Village is an ever-changing curriculum that is almost as contemporary as a daily newspaper. Its smorgasbord of noncredit classes ranges from "The Art of Singing Folk Songs" to the crassly commercial "What the Editor Wants: Media Placement in Public Relations." In the spring of 1965, the New School ran a course on the Warren Commission findings; this term it has a continuing series of lectures on the Viet Nam war-and it quickly signed up Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times for a 70-minute report...
...prerogative in the selection process was challenged last year when officialdom proposed that each House should contain a cross section of the student body. Finley's eyebrows still snap at references to the arbitrary plan of placement. "We mustn't have the authorities shunt men about. The Houses will be driven to uniformity." Eliot House seniors steeped in the Finley tradition of taste and style are equally opposed to random selection. Says one Eliot House upperclassman of the sophomores admitted under the new system, "You can see a certain sloppiness now in the dining hall. You know, the Winthrop House...
Another idea would impose more supervision on the Placement Office. The office does not have a Faculty committee to oversee its operations, and, under this proposal, such a committee would...