Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to reform the CRR began two years ago when the Class of '80 voted to send representatives to the CRR with the explicit intent of reforming the committee...
After much negotiating with Faculty members of the CRR, last year student reformers persuaded the committee to vote unanimously with one abstention to endorse a series of reform proposals that would equalize the number of students and Faculty members serving on the committee, create a special appeals board, bar hearsay evidence, allow the release of transcripts of the hearings if both parties agree, and prohibit the presence of legal counsel at the hearings...
Students seeking reform of the CRR may still bring the contested reforms before the full Faculty although Faculty Council members will explain to the Faculty their reasons for opposing the reforms...
...Frustrated by the inactivity of the Senate Ethics Committee, and deeply disturbed by the public's lack of confidence in the Congress, Senator Ed Brooke introduced in January of 1977 the first comprehensive Ethics Committee Reform Package. He fought in committee, in conferences and on the floor of the Senate for resolutions to reform the Ethics Committee, to require full financial disclosure for all Senators, and the establishment of a Senate Code of Ethics. Result: The Senate now has a Code of Ethics...
Danehy is a strange figure. He has spent the last decade being either extremely lucky or extremely careful when the political corruption spotlight has found Middlesex County in its path. He was not up for election during the Middlesex County "reform slate" of 1972, and stayed remarkably in the background of the late-summer hoopla surrounding fellow commissioner Mike McLaughlin and his alleged job-selling tactics. The job-selling probe, conducted in primary-timed fashion by District Attorney Droney's office, eventually cost McLaughlin a chance of winning the party nomination for Congress in the Sixth District...