Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...projects would probably flounder. Although he has recently set up a fledgling institute in Washington to carry on his kind of work, the effort is still uncertain enough that most of its life depends on Ralph Nader's personal force. The shift from one individual crusader to wider, institutionalized reform isn't easy, but Nader knows that there's only so much one famous crusader can do. And so his Washington institute-with the lumbering title "Center for the Study of Responsive Law"-and his summer student projects are part of his attempt to make the shift...
Since April, most reform efforts have focused on restructuring the University. These efforts will probably not bear fruit for some time to come. Yet in the meantime, issue of both political and educational nature remain of concern to at least a sizable portion of the student body. The danger of concentrating exclusively on restructuring is that it can allow such substantive questions as the propriety of certain types of research and the correctness of current admissions policies at Harvard to go unconsidered for an indefinite period by many students and Faculty...
...Board of Overseers, President Nathan Pusey established a new 35-member Committee on Governance that will include eleven students and 18 faculty members. Asserting that it was essential to re-establish "the high sense of mutual trust and confidence that formerly prevailed at Harvard," the overseers charged the reform panel with the responsibility of re-examining the university's decision-making process, which presently rests in a vague, tradition-bound combination of administrators, faculty and trustees-but no students. Among the alternatives proposed by the overseers for consideration: a new university body composed of students as well as faculty...
...task. Last week a special commission of 16 lawyers, professors and economists appointed by the American Bar Association explained the reasons for that failure. The agency, charged the commission, is a model of bureaucratic inertia, timidity and internal dissension, and it cries out for top-to-bottom reform...
Labor promises reform, but so far has delivered only tokenism. As long ago as 1962, the heads of 119 A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions signed an anti-bias pledge at the White House. Yet today, Negroes account for only 1½% of the 15,000 members of building unions in Boston. In Chicago, there are three "minority" journeymen among 900 boilermakers, two among 625 elevator constructors, and only one among 400 glaziers. Industrial unions sometimes have separate lines of promotion and seniority based on race. Nepotism, though on the wane today, has long been the principal way to gain admission to scores...