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...other side of the issue, people like Walter J. Leonard, formerly a special assistant to the president and the University's affirmative action officer, have led the fight for stricter enforcement of the quota system, particularly in the wake of the Bakke and DeFunis Supreme Court rulings...
Americans themselves are profoundly discouraged by the handguns that seem to breed uncontrollably among them like roaches. For years the majority of them have favored restrictions on handguns. In 1938 a Gallup poll discovered that 84% wanted gun controls. The latest Gallup finds that 62% want stricter laws governing handgun sales. Yet Americans go on buying handguns at the rate of one every 13 seconds. The murder rate keeps rising. It is both a cause and an effect of gun sales...
...student-faculty Teaching and Learning Committee, said this week that a poll of faculty members showed that 80 per cent of the faculty was in favor of "a greater degree of structure in the grading system." Some faculty members, and A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale, favor a stricter 100-point grading scale. Apfel added...
Thus, Reagan's attempts to reduce grants to the well off and require a stricter needs test for the Guaranteed Student Loan program seem in order. What Congress must do is hold the president to his promise not to eliminate aid to those students who would not be able to attend college without it. Trimming a program bloated by waste and misuse of funds is admirable, but the government should continue to step up its effort to improve educational opportunity, spending as much money as it takes to provide excellent schooling for anyone who wants...
...ordinance under consideration, similar to guidelines already adopted by Cambridge, would require all institutions using recombinant DNA technology to meet National Institutes of Health guidelines and would also forbid more dangerous experimentation requiring stricter P-3 and P-4 levels of containment...