Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three years ago, there was a philosophical split between committees working for social reform, such as the economic change group, and those performing social services, such as tutoring in high schools...
...conflict within the Mental Health Committee two years ago reflects the difference between the social reform and social service sectors. Volunteers worked in mental hospitals doing typical social service work until committee chairmen chose to eliminate these placements and to concetrate instead on alternative mental health concerns, such as halfway houses and a journal of radical therapy...
There are still definite differences between the two general types of committees. "Groups working for social reform are trying to analyze and remedy the causes of the problem, while social service attempts to relieve its effects," says Kristen L. Manos '80, president...
Whether these social reform committees will succeed as well as the ever-popular "Big Brother" and "Big Sister" social services is a matter for speculation...
...only as a progressive who brought Iran into the 20th century, but as socially advanced. Newspaper and magazine accounts cited the Shah's record in relaxing censorship, halting torture and replacing political prisoners as evidence of his willingness to cooperate with the opposition, and reported that the abortive land reform efforts of the '60s marked both the Shah's enlightenment and formed the pretext for opposition to his regime...