Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progress of women in politics may well have been set back by her victory. Jane Byrne is mean-spirited, less-than-competent, less-than-intelligent. Her election will mean only the end of the machine's invulnerability, not of its influence in Chicago politics. The city is set up on a weak-mayor, strong-city council system, which with a non-machine mayor suggests a return to the feudal, pre-Daley years when free-wheeling bosses ran wild, getting their hands into more cookie jars than modern-day Chicagoans can imagine even exist. Some of the more wily power-brokers...
...Faculty Council yesterday approved in principle, but postponed a vote on the proposed set of tutorial reforms, submitted by Glen W. Bowersock '57. associate dean of the Faculty...
...approved reforms also require that students on special departmental committees, set up to oversee the tutorial program, "recommend," instead of "authorize," changes in the tutorial legislation. The original reforms permitted all committee members "to authorize appropriate exceptions" to the legislation...
...Faculty Council yesterday also began to review the report by the Task Force on Advising and Counseling. The Task Force, one of seven set up by Dean Rosovsky in 1975 to review different aspects of undergraduate education, submitted its report to Rosovsky last October...
They will also, no doubt, be well-advised to set limits on the contact of sincere American intellectuals with the Chinese people. Even American students of China who in their own minds associate themselves with a counter-culture are likely to find that in fact they come to China as part of the expansion of American life. For example, the American penchant for asking the individual Chinese citizen how he feels about things and how he would criticize the situation, etc., may not fit into the Chinese cultural environment. Visitors to China are supposed to stay out of local politics...