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Continuing the spirit of breaking with tradition, the Faculty also got rid of expungement--it was inconsistent with state laws to erase all trace of a student from the College records, and it hasn't been done in years anyway...
...place, nor am I the person," she says, "to draw blueprints for the assimilation of men in large numbers into childcare." We are left with no choice but a separatist future--a vision that precludes children born according to the rather well-established biological pattern, although it does get rid of the motherhood problem...
...fact that for the first six months of 1977 it will have not one but two heads-Hooks and Wilkins-is a symptom of its deep malaise. Wilkins, 75, has even accused some members of the N.A.A.C.P.'s governing board of conducting a "campaign of vilification" to get rid of him. For the sake of appearances, the board allowed him to stay-along with Hooks as director-designate-until after the national convention next summer in St. Louis, the city in which Wilkins was born...
Hillier's remarkable weight loss is the result not of some new dieting fad but of the oldest, surest and quickest way to get rid of excess fat: fasting. Along with others afflicted with severe obesity, he had enrolled in a pioneering fasting clinic at Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital. Except for a powdery mix of mainly alanine (an amino acid) and glucose that is taken with water or diet drinks, patients at the clinic eat nothing whatsoever for weeks and months at a time, starving off their pounds...
...potentially dubious ramifications. One exciting thing about coming to Harvard is that, even if you have had schooling that would by some standards seem infrior, once you arrive here that past can be forgoten. The untracked curruculum makes for a strong measue of equality. That equality enables students to rid themselves of insecurities and potentially crushing inferiority complexes. Under a placing-out plan, students would in effects be told that they are smarter or dumber, more or less disadvantaged than others. The psychological damage of such divisins would carry a much greater impact than the relatively monor intellectual gains that...