Word: treatment
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Bryant Park, behind the New York City Public Library, is meant to be an oasis in a concrete desert, but it often seems more like a drug bazaar. Four Soviet health officials, in the U.S. to study treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction, discovered just how brazen the local merchants could be when their American guide took them to visit the park...
...that students cannot act with proper perspective or responsibility due to their fleeting presence (in comparison to the immortality of this 351-year-old institution). Or maybe they just don't like undergraduates; sometimes it's hard to tell. Therefore, student input is ignored on decisions on investment policy, treatment of unions, handling student protests, future expansion, research policy, and so on. In fact, the Administration fails to constantly inform students what issues it takes up and what it decides...
...possibility of a new examination of the "mess." Justices William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White have indicated a willingness to lower some church-state barriers, and Antonin Scalia, a conservative who joined the court last year, dissented from overturning a Louisiana law that required equal school treatment for creation science, deeming the court's work on the establishment clause "embarrassing." Powell's replacement, who will become President Reagan's third court appointment, may create a new 5-4 majority favoring a less rigid approach in some church-state cases...
Most of the considerable emotion that surrounds the establishment clause concerns education -- aid to schools with religious sponsorship and the treatment of religion in public schools. In 1985 the Supreme Court threw out a law authorizing a "moment of silence" in Alabama's public classrooms because the state law specified that the purpose was to set aside time to pray. The court hinted broadly that it might accept a nearly identical law if the measure did not narrow the purpose so plainly. Such a law is currently under challenge in New Jersey...
Perhaps the most instructive information that has emerged recently, notes Nashville Tennessean Editor John Seigenthaler, is that "libel suits can be brought on because plaintiffs are infuriated by the cavalier treatment they get from the newspaper staff." What many libel plaintiffs really seek is an apology, a means of reply, or even just a respectful hearing -- which more of the press is grudgingly beginning to offer...