Word: reform
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Eisert is more or less right, of course. But he has the facts of the disciplinary review all wrong. The proposed disciplinary reform would create a body of students and faculty who would hear unusual disciplinary cases, presumably including some of those stemming from political protests...
...stated code of laws which they could debate, endorse and use as a basis for their defense if they were facing disciplinary procedures. Eisert has said the Faculty is not ready to accept such a revamping of the process and that pressing for one would only jeopardize the partial "reform" the council provisionally voted to support last Sunday...
...Reform-minded Democrats have been at the fore of the cause. "A new system of national service," says Presidential Hopeful Gary Hart, "will ask young Americans to return some of the advantages and investments they have received ; from our society." The Democratic Leadership Council, an organization headed by former Virginia Governor Charles Robb, has endorsed the notion as a way to "foster a new spirit of citizenship and patriotism...
...currently imprisoned or detained for their political beliefs. Still, it is the first mass release of prisoners of conscience since the de-Stalinization drive of the late 1950s, as well as the latest and perhaps most important manifestation of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's widely proclaimed program of reform and revitalization. Weighing the evidence, Sakharov, who was allowed to return to Moscow only two months ago, after spending seven years under virtual house arrest in the closed city of Gorky, concluded, "I don't know what Gorbachev wants personally, but there are a number of people...
...must be said that the Ad Board's procedures have been shrouded in vagueness for so long, and been so tainted by secrecy and a reliance on the never-assured goodwill of Senior Tutors and other administrators, that any reform is welcome, and the more better. However, we as students must never believe that we have achieved "enough" justice, or that to achieve more would be to achieve "too much"--it has taken decades to get this far, and the administration has shown more than once that it is completely willing to let the matter rest right where...