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...lessen the danger of future accidents, the commission recommended that plant operators be held to stricter training standards and that future plants be built far away from major population centers.* The commission also urged that the NRC be replaced by a nuclear czar appointed by the President. This recommendation set off a sharp debate. NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford contended that a single administrator would do nothing to improve the Government's regulation of nukes. Said he: "This is not a meat-inspection program." Replied Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, a Kemeny commission member: "The NRC is a headless agency that...
Nevertheless, Harvard appeared much stricter than Radcliffe about keeping the sexes apart. Lamont Library did not open to women until 1968, much to the surprise of the first Radcliffe student to enter officially, who said she had often been there before. Harvard required its students to escort Radcliffe women home if they were out after 11 p.m. At the same time, the University decreed in 1966 that the latest women could stay at Harvard organizations was 12:30 a.m., and that extension applied only to The Crimson and WHRB...
Christian standards, of course, attract some students to these stricter colleges. But an entirely different set of standards induces students to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., the most restrictive of all institutions of higher education...
...loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation." Eastern Orthodox and Protestants have allowed divorce, at the very least in the case of adultery, citing the statement of Jesus Christ in Matthew 5: 32. But for centuries Roman Catholicism has held to stricter parallel verses in Mark and Luke. Its doctrine holds that a divorced spouse who remarries lives in a state of adultery. The current argument within Catholicism is about whether or not the church should come to terms with the millions of Catholics now into their second marriages and still eager...
...most are black. Cheerleader Ellen D. Powell '82, says the original basketball cheerleading squad was all black. The squad did mostly "stomp cheers," which involved more clapping, dancing and singing, and Powell says most predominantly white high schools--like the one she went to--do "precision cheers," requiring stricter arm movements and less dancing. Powell "found it hard" to adjust to the stomp brand of cheerleading; others could not adjust at all and dropped out after a few weeks. "The white girls could not get into doing the stomp cheers. It wasn't the way they were brought...