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...legislation may compromise their legal status as educational institutions and forfeit their exemption from local property taxes and federal taxes on endowment income. This would also cancel their contributors' right to deduct gifts from their tax returns. Also in danger of losing their educational status: colleges that shorten rather than rearrange their schedules thereby, in effect, allowing students and faculty to campaign on school time...
...future choices in Indochina. Still, by demonstrating to the President the fragility of American public opinion about the war and the deep weariness of the U.S. with any course that does not lead the troops home, the invasion of Cambodia may well, by limiting Nixon's options, ultimately shorten the war. That, of course, was the President's aim in deciding to go into Cambodia in the first place. It is just that it may be working out in ways that he did not expect and would not have chosen...
...Faculty Council, which was designed to streamline and shorten Faculty meetings, has had less than complete success. In a Faculty as large as Harvard's it is difficult to consider major issues with even minimal comprehensiveness. Criticism of the Faculty for confusion and chaotic procedures came after the meetings held last spring in the wake of the April University Hall takeover. Yet the new form of government seems to be having its own difficulties. While votes are taken more quickly and debate is shortened, charges of railroading and fixed agendas are more common...
Four years ago, the Socialists lost to the People's Party by a disturbing 6%. Since then, Kreisky has remolded them into a party designed to capture the young and the educated middle class. Among other things, the "Sozis" pledged to shorten obligatory military service from nine to six months and clearly profited from a recent lowering of the voting age from 20 to 19. In addition, Willy Brandt's election as the Social Democratic Chancellor of neighboring West Germany helped Kreisky's party to overcome residual Austrian fears of the red Bürgerschreck ("Burgher...
...clarifying such situations -proposed by the Nixon Administration-would be to legalize "preventive" pretrial detention, imposing it after the safeguard of a full hearing. Other reformers place greater emphasis on speeding trials to shorten the time in which an arrested suspect's rights might be abused or he might commit additional crimes. In view of the nation's chronic court congestion, however, the reformers also urge judges to take more immediate steps, freeing most defendants on reasonable bail and using ways other than jail to assure that they reappear for trial and behave lawfully. Obvious techniques include ordering...