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...proposal, which passed through the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) last week, was originally sponsored by the student members of the CUE, and came in response to a recommendation from the Task Force on Concentrations that the Faculty rescind current legislation setting quotas for faculty participation in tutorials...
...miles away from British coastal ports. The legislation gives union members a foothold in the unloading of container shipping, which has reduced the need for longshore labor at docksides. The Lords had narrowed the proposed law's application to a half-mile zone around ports. In voting to rescind two amendments, a pair of Labor backbenchers abstained, and the government was defeated...
...outcry of some trustees has not forced club president Michael McHugh '77 to rescind invitations sent out to women. But one student member said yesterday the chances of women actually being admitted are zero...
...case of Karen Anne Quinlan, the New Jersey girl who slipped into an apparently irreversible coma. Karen's parents spent six months battling for her right to die with dignity.* Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend seems to be to get rid of the senile, insane and crippled people. Our next move will be to get rid of everyone...
...CHUL also decided unanimously to rescind its previous endorsement of the Grabar proposal, after the CHUL executive committee reported that the plan was "unworkable...