Word: reform
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...Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) asked Harvard to use its financial influence (more than $9 million worth of stock in Middle South Utilities Inc., the company that owns Arkansas Power and Light, which is trying to build the plant) to ensure that the 2800-megawatt, coal-burning plant's smokestacks have additional sulfur dioxide emission controlls...
Modifications such as better sources of information independent of the executive and better staffing and organization of committees could improve the situation, Harrington says, but he sees little true reform coming from inside the Congress...
Such gains will probably be lost if the current proposal for reform is approved. On December 19, Gwynne B. Evans and Jean H. Slingerland, director and assistant director of Expository Writing, submitted a proposal to the Faculty Council to exempt over 500 students from the writing requirement, to eliminate the middle-group courses, and to standardize Expos 10 with one text, one exam, and one syllabus for the 1000 who score below 700 on the English Composition Achievement Test. The proposal has not yet been passed, because of considerable controversy between the teaching and the administrative staffs of the program...
...Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) asked Harvard to pressure AP&L to install additional sulfur dioxide controls on the plant's smokestacks and to provide expert testimony on the plant at the public service commission's licensing hearings...
...unwillingness on the part of the faculty to re-open the issue. Several administrators, notably Dean Whitlock, have expressed the opinion that negotiations entered in good faith would be productive. As to the possibilities of changing last year's faculty vote on the issue, while it is true that reforms equivalent to those mentioned above were defeated, it should be noted that they were defeated by the narrowest of margins (48-43). Clearly, there is some Faculty interest in reform. One thing is certain: students in Leverett House, after being given an extensive introduction to the issue, supported negotiation strongly...