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...next month--and probably approve--a slight change in the procedures for nomination to the Faculty Council this year. The change is a minor one, a reduction of the number of nominations a candidate needs to appear on the ballot for council membership to five. Last year the quota was five for non-tenured faculty and ten for tenured: the year before it was ten for non-tenured and 20 for tenured...
There are over 600 undergraduates who live off campus, mostly of whom are affiliated with Dudley House, Harvard's only domicile without enclosures. There probably would be more off campus dwellers if Harvard didn't impose a quota on the number of students within each House who are allowed to move off campus. This year, each House permits about 20 students to move...
...oppose 'quota tokenism' which is demeaning to women and blacks," Bell said...
...alternative way to cut imports without raising prices so much might be to put a flat quota on foreign oil, accompanied by some form of allocation or modified rationing to share out the reduced supplies. In order to minimize racketeering, any rationing ought to be coupled with what has been called the "white market"?a kind of legal black market in which people who had more ration coupons than they needed could sell them, with Government approval, to others who needed and were willing to pay for extra coupons. On the other hand, if Congress buys the argument...
...down frequently. Another problem is hotdogging. Some of the Americans play tough only on offense, producing resentment among hardworking, if less talented teammates. One U.S. player in Germany recently left, reportedly because he could not get along with German players. Such tensions have been limited so far by a quota on American competitors-a team can use only one on the court at a time...