Word: selections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recommendation asked that "residential facilities authorized by the university be open to all students on an equal basis, so as the abolish the practice by which current members of living units select new members...
...urban public schools grow increasingly black, city private schools are thriving-as select enclaves for ever brighter whites. Many such schools are seeking more Negroes, but in New York City, for example, private-school enrollment is still only about 3% black. Now one unusual school is showing others how to break the racial barriers...
...this suggests that prisons are slowly absorbing a key lesson of modern psychology: desirable behavior is best induced by "positive reinforcement"-rewards rather than punishment. Thus, federal prisons and 24 states now use work-release schemes pioneered by North Carolina, where 12,000 select convicts have earned $10 million in ten years-even working as court reporters, while partly supporting their families, partly paying their prison keep and landing future jobs. At California's San Joaquin County Jail, one recent prisoner was an ex-airplane dealer who spent all day flying charter planes, duly landed for the night lockup...
Invoking Luke, Plato, Cicero and other chroniclers of virtue, the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct last week proposed "additions to the standing rules of the Senate." They amounted, in fact, to a bulky code of ethics intended to spare the Senate future embarrassments of the kind that have plagued it in the past, most notoriously those occasioned by the transgressions of Tom Dodd and Bobby Baker...
Under the chairmanship of Lammot du Pont Copeland '27, the committee will solicit the necessary funds from a select group of wealthy benefactors, Merle Fainsod, Director of the University Library, said yesterday...