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These students would know intuitively what the Doty Committee seems unwilling to acknowledge: A behavioral science is not the same--in style of thought or rigor--as a natural science. It is simply inconsistent to call for a stiffer science requirement and then propose a requirement in the behavioral sciences. Of course many of the behavioral sciences are interesting and important, but so are music and philosophy, and no one is asking that every student should take them. To justify its proposals, the Doty Committee would have had to explain the special importance of the behavioral sciences. This, we believe...
...victory might come high. As the week wore on, desperate rebel "President" Christophe Gbenye made the price look stiffer and stiffer...
...last prank took place a few years ago, when students painted a red and yellow dress on a Henry Moore sculpture. The university has no rules against drinking on campus because no one drinks anything stiffer than orange juice...
...Reds' setbacks are the result of a stiffer U.S. and Laotian government policy. U.S.-supplied T-28s are crippling Pathet Lao supply lines. The Reds could counterattack massively on the ground, but they apparently fear U.S. retaliation. Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma has survived with the help of the rightists, who have not tried a coup to take over the government for fully six months-although there has been an occasional, embarrassing mutiny among neutralist soldiers. During a recent Paris conference of the Laotian factions, Souvanna stood firm against unilateral concessions to the Reds. King Savang Vatthana got so vexed...
Toepfer, who is also director of admissions at the Law School, attributed the change in the makeup of the class to increasingly stiffer competition for a fixed number of places...