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While a majority of Ivy League schools are working to strengthen the connection between the faculty and the students, some administrators fear "too much" support. At Brown University, for example, administrators seek to promote a high degree of independence in student residential life...
...response, on March 11, a bylaws amendment that would have required another mandatory roll call at the end of meetings to gauge attendance was introduced. Seeking to strengthen accountability and representation, and even, under a friendly amendment, in effect allowing up to five absences before expulsion, this flexible proposal would seem to have merited strong support...
...addition to these U.S. domestic matters, Hussein and the other moderate Arabs are increasingly alarmed about the failure of American policy in Lebanon and the degree to which this may embolden Syria to strengthen its position at their expense. The Marines are gone from Beirut, except for a contingent guarding the U.S. embassy; a member of the embassy staff, Political Officer William Buckley, was kidnaped by three men at gunpoint as he left his apartment in West Beirut last Friday morning. Also gone, along with the Marine peace-keeping force, were the Reagan Administration's dreams of helping President...
According to Elledge, White's college education seemed to strengthen and confirm rather than shape or remold his character. He chose Cornell rather than any other college because his older brothers had studied ther and because "Cornell was less uncomfortably elitist, less discriminatory, less homogenous than Harvard. Yale or Princeton,"--schools he could easily have entered. In the course of his years in college. White became editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun, a post which seems to have meant more to him than any other single experience...
...have blurred Collier's generous vision, we have nevertheless held fast to his dream of tribal integrity. Richard Nixon endorsed it in 1970, and Congress reaffirmed it five years later with passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. Even Ronald Reagan has pledged "to encourage and strengthen tribal government" and "to deal with Indian tribes on a government-to-government basis...