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Word: rightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for this hesitancy is a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling forbidding universities receiving federal funds to recognize student governments with special seats for minority members. Right now, that case is being appealed...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Alphabet Soup for Junior Politicians | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Sick as I was then, I was soon to be sicker. Exhausted after my first exam and facing two more in the next two days, I took a No-Doz to stay awake and study. I stayed awake all right, and began hyperventilating around 5 a.m., when I realized that I would never get to sleep. Terrified, I woke up my proctor, who sleepily told me to go the the infirmary. "That's okay. Good luck." SLAM...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: A Ticket to Ride | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...courses and independent studies. But by their nature--and Harvard's unwillingness to support them in large quantities--they benefit only a lucky few. The multitudes sit in large, generally uncomfortable lecture halls, stare at the professor (or out the window), mechanically take notes they will stow away until right before an exam, and wait impatiently for the hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in the Academic Factory | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...right-wing rhetoric, the proposals contained in the author's "New Homestead" border on the pinko. He believes in Metropolitan government, re-investment in the inner city, and health care for all who can't afford it (although not paid for by the government--figure that...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Harvard Hates LeBoutillier | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Studies Department. Ever since Af-Am's stormy birth ten years ago, detractors have attacked its academic validity. They believe Af-Am has no methodology and could better be studied through an interdisciplinary committee. But supporters say the demotion to a committee would cripple Af-Am by removing its right to tenure professors and choose its own curriculum. This fall an Overseers' Visiting Committee will give its opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes From the Underground... | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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