Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representatives to UCSHR were at the meeting last week, and the member who was missing represented a different viewpoint," Lashof added. UCSHR has refused to send an undergraduate representative to ACSR meetings since December 1978, and will not do so until the ACSR responds to two UCSHR proposals for reform of ACSR's procedures...
According to Bok, a university's "institutional goal" should not be "to reform society in specific ways." Rather, a university's special mission is the discovery and transmission of knowledge," which by itself serves a major social function...
Both the vast world-wide concerns and the rigid central authority discourage reform, but Switzer does see signs change. "I think there will be women priests within 20 years, although many people say I am naive to believe that," she said...
...Clockwork Orange. Stanley Kubrick elevates this Anthony Burgess nightmare into a film of frightening precision, thought-provoking and pointed in its satire of "enlightened" modern ideas of criminal reform. Some find the violence sensationalized, but Kubrick gives it all purpose. The perfectly realized vision of London as the decadent plaything of roving gangs turns macabre as Kubrick overlays Rossini, Beethoven, and Purcell music. Don't expect to leave feeling reassured or satisfied; Kubrick doesn't answer the questions he raises about society's right to curb individual freedoms when the individuals smash, batter and rape. Malcolm MacDowells's sympathetic portrayal...
...intellectuals, professionals and members of the middle class fear that instead of ushering in a new era of freedom, the revolution will result in an Islamic dictatorship as repressive as the Shah's regime. Those worries deepened last week when Khomeini passed along his guidelines for the reform of Iran's legal code. He ordered Justice Minister Assadollah Mobasheri to repeal all laws that "contravene Islam." Henceforth, all trials must end "in a final, absolute decision in a single phase." The right of women to seek divorces, established by a 1975 law enacted under the Shah, would...