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...DOLLARS--they don't buy much these days, and the recent Dowling Committee proposal to tack a $10 surcharge onto term bills to fund a reconstituted student government won't buy students more decision-making power. Student government or its facsimiles has proved remarkably ineffective over the last ten years, and now the student-faculty committee investigating student governance wants to institutionalize that futility. Behind the bureaucratic veneer masking a revamped Student Assembly, chances are undergraduates will find themselves with even less input--if that is possible--into the decisions affecting this University...
...Tack on to that Dave Cody's extra point, and two Eli drives frustrated by a fired-up Crimson defense, hitherto considered lackluster. New Haven was wondering...
...Tack on to that Dave Cody's extra point, and two Eli drives frustrated by a fired-up Crimson defense, hitherto considered lackluster. New Haven was wondering...
...election-unit whiz, John Thompson, is mystified by Mitofsky's approach. Thompson spends months every year crisscrossing the country, talking to local election officials and learning all he can about each state before picking his precincts. Roy Wetzel, his counterpart at NBC, takes a similar tack. Says Thompson: "Mine is a subjective judgment. I know how to talk to people to get the kind of information I want. Then I put it into the computer...
...supports one man against the wishes of the people. Not only is it leaving itself open to contradictions of human rights, but also it allows itself to be perceived as siding with Marcos. And when he goes..." Aquino's voice trails off. Then he tries another tack. "If the U.S. had no leverage, it could not be held responsible. But when it has the leverage and can't use its influence for the better, it gives the impression of propping up a dictatorship." Just because Carter has never invited Marcos to the White House, Aquino adds, does not mean that...