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...need to consider all the suggestions from an educational standpoint. That's the most important question because I think it is the House and tutorial program that distinguishes this place for undergraduates." Horner said...
From a strictly academic standpoint, I fear that the total isolation of freshman would have a disastrous effect. Several recent studies and Faculty communications have noted the lack of faculty student contact, particularly within the Houses. With the exception of the very small minority of Faculty members involved in the Freshman Seminar program, freshmen for the most part see much less of senior faculty than do upperclassmen...
...REOPENING of the canal is more than simply a gesture of good will on Sadat's part. As the United States realizes, the greatest beneficiary of an open canal from an economic standpoint will be the Soviet Union, and Sadat is signalling Kissinger in less than subtle fashion that Egypt may re-activate its recently dormant alliance with the Soviet Union at any moment, if American policy is not satisfactory to him. With Soviet ships passing through the canal, the chances of the USSR supplying Sadat with the arms he has requested but not received are good. The Soviet Union...
From the verbal standpoint, Newman writer, Watergate was a lengthly catalogue of the type of flaccid phrase so common in society today: "One of the things the Watergate hearings revealed was a poverty of expression, an inability to say anything in a striking way, an addiction to a language that was almost denatured, and in which what little humor did occur was usually unintentional...
Given a certain number of guns in a particular community, a predictable number of accidents, suicides and homicides involving these weapons will result. It matters not who owns the guns; the critical question is the overall number in circulation. From the standpoint of homicide prevention, it is meaningless whether the gun is registered, licensed or inspected. The mere presence of the weapon, regardless of its legal status, creates a statistical probability for the occurrence of homicide...