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...other student-faculty committees. They seek to step into the vacuum in the organized presentation of student opinions to the administration, a vacuum CHUL and the other committees have left unfilled. CHUL's primary problem runs deep, to its original Faculty charter. In CHUL, the Faculty built an almost powerless body, and certain administrators have compounded CHUL's weakness by refusing to comply with student members' requests for budgetary data, essential if CHUL is to take informed, credible stands on the issues...
...What must be done to correct the system?" Some observers feel that a school committee and city council elected by districts and a new mayor will solve the problem. The School Committee, however, does not run the schools; the court-appointed experts do. The City Council is powerless to layoff teachers, administrators, city workers, or cut pension costs because of unions and state law. No amount of "moral leadership" from the mayor will convince Bostonians to accept the busing plan. Obviously reform is not so simple as these people suggest...
America has gone from a situation of "benign concern to malignant neglect," he said. Although the general condition of blacks here has improved, eliminating some of the more "blatant aspects of American apartheid," their relative position has worsened. Blacks remain disproportionately powerless, he said...
...prominence during the widely publicized trials of American radicals like the Chicago Seven. The German lawyers have mastered the art of disrupting cases with obfuscating rhetoric, demands for evidence that is impossible to secure, requests for delays. Lacking any provision for contempt of court, German judges have generally been powerless to control these lawyers; disbarment is a seldom used procedure. Using the privileged status of the attorney-client relationship as a cloak, about a dozen of these lawyers have served-illegally-as liaison between imprisoned terrorists and their colleagues still at large...
...erupted for the third time in a month, sending a stream of lava three kilometers (two miles) down the mountainside and shooting a pillar of flame and smoke 450 meters (1,500 ft.) into the air. Both provided evidence that, regardless of progress in other areas, man is still powerless to control the fires beneath his feet...