Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other attempts at educational innovation, the Faculty passed tutorial reform legislation last year mandating that senior faculty members teach a certain percentage of tutorials. Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, pushed the reforms through an unwilling Faculty. But no one has indicated how they will be enforced...
...course as a whole, and especially the lectures, need some working on. One good reform would be to replace some of Fisher's lectures after the first month-and-a-half of the course (when the merits of the tools become dubious) with more section meetings, where the tools could be applied and evaluated in simulations. Moreover, in the lectures that are kept, Fisher should invite more guest speakers. Last year, the former mayor of Jerusalem visited the class...
...power seemed to evaporate in one humiliating and dramatic day. At Vatican II's first session in 1962, he was orating against liturgical reform and ran well beyond the ten-minute limit on speeches...
...Sarah Weddington, 34. "I want to see to it that women are not cut off from power positions," says Carter's special assistant on women's issues. A graduate of the University of Texas Law School and a Texas state legislator for five years, Attorney Weddington worked to reform the state's sexual abuse laws and equalize commercial credit requirements for women. In 1973, at the age of 28, she won the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. Since Weddington replaced Midge Costanza last November, Carter has increased...
DIED. Rexford Guy Tugwell, 88, liberal economist who, as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust," masterminded many of the New Deal's reforms; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Tugwell was a professor at Columbia University when recruited to assist Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, in his quest for the presidency. Appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1933, he became one of F.D.R.'s most powerful advisers, supporting sweeping social welfare programs, tough Government regulation of industry and subsidies to farmers for not planting surplus crops. Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt...