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...credit, Harvard has elected a woman to its previously all-male Corporation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has formed a special committee to review faculty hiring practices and the College did provide $500 this week for Safestreets, a night escort system. But this slight bit of progress came only after the vehement agitation on the part of students--from the bottom up, if you will...
...most journalists at last week's conference held out little hope for reforming the way death is covered. "We have a commercial interest in catastrophe," admits Milwaukee Journal editor Sig Gissler. The most realistic changes that can be hoped for, agreed the journalists, are slight improvements in tone and treatment. Said Newsday columnist Sydney Schanberg: "If we see only five seconds instead of 30 seconds of ghoulish film, we've made progress...
Salenger says she also hopes to work on the Broadway stage, but a slight problem has prevented her from auditioning...
Indeed, the recent history of this plan bears out the worst fears and cynicism of students: The masters give a proposal, students object; there is discussion, students still object; the administration approves the proposal with slight, but insufficient, changes; students object...
...philosophical objections. Even some advocates think it is oversold. Police officers tend to equate guns with drugs; so long as the crack trade is not significantly reduced, they think, the inner-city shoot-outs will rage on and contribute to the impression (not entirely justified in light of slight overall declines in the national crime rate) of a rising tide of violent crime that has driven so many peaceful citizens to arm themselves. On the practical side, writing a definition of paramilitary weapons that would distinguish them from some types of semiautomatic hunting rifles is no easy...