Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRESIDENT CARTER'S decision to decontrol the price of oil before the 1981 deadline set by law makes the worst of a bad situation. In the first place, early decontrol will not increase oil production; the reason is simple. Decontrol is scheduled to take place in 1981, two and a half years form now. But oil companies, which need a minimum of three years to plan and drill a well, process the oil, and get the product to market, are now planning all their new production on the assumption that there will be no price controls. Early decontrol doesn...
National media also played up the event; even if the publicity has no effect on Harvard, it may help educate others about South Africa and touch off similar movements on other campuses, the organizers reason...
...find a professor to appoint to the department--apparently to no avail. Yet when the Afro-American Studies Department nominated Ephraim Isaacs, then assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, for tenure in 1971, the ad hoc committee reviewing his nomination would not appoint him. The official reason for the decision was that Isaacs' specialty was "Africanism, rather than Afro-Americanism...
...EXEMPTION effort fails, the lobbyists will try to bar HEW from using its funds to enforce the legislation. This would mean that colleges and universities could disobey the legislation without fear of federal scrutiny. There is reason to suspect that such disobedience would be widespread: since the three-year transition period for compliance with Title IX ended last July, HEW has received more than 100 allegations of sex discrimination in athletic programs...
...left his Jazz Workshop Group without a solid background in Mingus-Music. Trumpeter Ted Curson, saxophonist Booker Ervin, drummer Dannie Richmond, and the other members of the band all worked extensively with Mingus--their performance should be very special. The awesome bass chair will be filled by Charlie Haden, reason enough to hear a set of swinging inspiration...