Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whether to nominate any of themselves for CRR service last week voted down a motion to preserve the boycott, but then decided not to nominate students without setting any conditions on their appointment. From these votes it is clear that the majority of the group favors an effort to reform the CRR from the inside by appointing students who are pledged to work for changes in the CRR's composition and procedures...
Third, the relative transcript proposal would put an end to significant attempts at educational reform begun in the last decade. The notion of courses which are selfpaced or use contract grading, for example, which allows for student evaluation according to self-determined set criteria will be downgraded in importance because graduate and professional schools will focus their attention on courses which were graded relatively. Faculty will probably be forced into a grading-on-the-curve system, rather than one which is realistically geared to what students actually learn in a course...
...those liberals, social democrats and Stalinists who call for reform of the NSA/CIA, we respond: Abolish the capitalist secret police! To reform them is only to make them better tools in the hands of the imperalists, whose interests they were created to serve. A workers revolution will sweep away all the creatures of imperalism as it rids the world of the brutal system of exploitation for profit, and prepares to build a new socialist society...
...group apparently intends to nominate several of its members to serve on the CRR on the condition that they work to reform the committee's composition and procedures from the inside...
...panel is also considering a motion to delay the students' appointment to the CRR until after the student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life drafts a set of CRR reform proposals and presents them to the Faculty Council...