Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more virulent foe of apartheid than one of the AAA candidates? The majority doesn't care. It should. Single-issue candidates must be viewed with skepticism in any election. To endorse them without bothering to examine who their opponents are and what they stand for is to seek democratic reform by ignoring democratic principle...
...DEMISE of the much-despised Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) seems near. The Faculty Council voted last week to approve a plan that would replace the disciplinary body with a new student-faculty committee. The plan now awaits the approval of the full faculty. Disciplinary reform is speeding right along...
Definitely not. First, the Administration has undercut the legitimacy the proposed new body might ever hope to achieve, if implemented, by trying to coerce student support. That is just what Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence was doing when he threatened to scrap disciplinary reform altogether if the current proposal is rejected. Second, the substance of the proposal itself leaves much to be desired. Like the CRR, for instance, the new board is empowered to conduct business as usual even if all of its undergraduate members were to boycott any of its meetings...
...community can debate and agree upon; these rules, in turn, should serve as the constraints under which the new body operates. The new body's potential for arbitrariness must be limited; clear rules to govern the entire community--students, faculty and staff alike--must be established. Otherwise disciplinary reform will be no reform...
...recent months China has appeared to pull back on its economic and political reforms, prompting China watchers to question whether Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, is still in charge. Secretary of State George Shultz flew into the Middle Kingdom to see for himself during a ten-day Asian trip and found the Chinese bent on convincing him that only the pace of reform had slowed. At one point, however, Deng showed that the best defense was a good offense. He tweaked Shultz by alluding to Iranscam and the Tower report, saying, "By engaging in politics and by running the government...