Word: reform
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...current poll asked students whether they favor reform of Brown's current calendar, which places exams after Christmas vacation. Brown President Howard R. Swearer, who favors calendar reform, asked the UCS to survey the students; the council will present the results of the poll to a faculty committee studying the issue...
...order to gain tax-exempt status PUMA as an organization must refrain from any formal political lobbying efforts. Nevertheless, PUMA members have been involved in lobbying at the State House to decriminalize prostitution, often working through Prostitutes for Legislative Reform. Lewis and Weeks praise some legislators--State Reps. Barney Frank '61, Mel King and Elaine Noble--for being supportive. But their meetings with some other politicians have been frustrating. In one meeting at the State House, the legislature's leading anti-abortion crusader started spouting Biblical injunctions as soon as Lewis explained his purpose. Lewis hates that at least...
...PUMA members have de-emphasized the push for legislative reform recently as they have realized most politicians will offer them little support. Weeks says, "We were getting doors shut in our face for decriminalization." So the group is re-orienting itself toward social services...
What may be the greatest task for PUMA, and certainly a prerequisite for any serious legislative reform, is educating the public to what PUMA interprets as the proper role of prostitutes. Weeks and several of the women at the Halloween party stated they have a right to be prostitutes, emphasizing the differences between themselves and women who commit several other crimes in addition to prostitution. Frank agrees, "There's nothing inherently violent about the sale of sex. There is something violent about illegal businesses...
...criticism and scrutiny. In large part thanks to their combative, intimidating intellectual styles, taking them on has appeared a thankless, nasty task. Yet in the past year, as the controversy over the Bakke case rages and as political thinkers choose sides in the debate over the issues of welfare reform and federal aid to cities, more and more people have begun to see beyond the blinding gloss of the new ethnicity to the bottom line, reactionary impulse that lurks behind. Signs of this exposure are even now surfacing in the popular press. Side by side with its "Is America Turning...