Word: steps
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When Franklin Murphy decided to step down as chancellor of U.C.L.A., the California board of regents could have followed the normal practice in finding a successor: appoint an acting president, sound out candidates, eventually settle on a president who had made a name elsewhere. Instead, the regents satisfied themselves, faculty and students by staying on campus. Early this month, Charles E. Young, U.C.L.A.'s vice chancellor, officially took charge of the 28,000-student campus. Only eight years out of graduate school, Young is, at 36, the nation's youngest head of a major university...
...More Lock Step. There will also be more students than ever before. Mayhew argues that all educators will come to recognize that a balanced, liberal arts college education can be absorbed by and helpful to almost everyone, provided that the pressures of grading and lock-step progress are eased. Instead of flunking out, students will be able to stay with a subject until they master it. Mayhew may be overly sanguine in predicting that by 1980 "parents will have accepted the fact that childhood or youth will have extended to 30 to 35 years of age." But with increased life...
...first step, the new charter's provision for an independent supreme court has been implemented by the National Assembly. The Supreme Court will consolidate the two highest tribunals, which handle criminal and civil cases (Court of Cassation) and administrative cases (Council of State). A joint session of the National Assembly will elect the court's 15 judges to six-year terms. Their extensive powers will include the right to interpret the constitution, decide on the dissolution of political parties opposed to the republican form of government, and review all laws, decrees and administrative decisions. Most important, the Supreme...
...shelves. Payson Sawyer, 35, one of Maine's largest toy distributors and leader of a citizens' group called "Toy Disarmament," has earmarked his entire stock of toy guns for a big bonfire this month. "Everybody talks about disarming the world, but we believe a practical step is to start at home," says Sawyer. His group is sponsoring a campaign in which children who surrender their toy guns receive buttons saying "I turned mine...
...obvious answer to the problems on the waterways is a federal licensing program run by the Coast Guard. But neither Congress nor the Coast Guard is anxious to take such a drastic step; it would involve mountains of red tape and untold millions of dollars. The next best thing is to educate boaters about the machines they operate and the elements they defy. The U.S. Power Squadron and the Coast Guard Auxiliary provide free classes in seamanship and safety. But the classes appeal to the prudent, not to the boaters who need them most. "We are missing a large segment...