Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presently unclear how students planning to take part in the Army ROTC program will be affected...
Rent control protects some tenants somewhat against rent increases, though which tenants are really helped and the extent of their protection remain unclear. It does tend to hurt landlords, though clever speculators can usually find a way over, under, or around such a law, creating a black market in housing. It hampers new construction, and consequently reduces a city's potential tax base (and the amount of money it has to spend)--but the time needed for major damage to new construction is primarily guesswork. On paper, rent control laws are an added weapon for building code enforcement, but they...
...loss of the battle appears to have induced many to switch to referendum campaign where their fight for the cherished rent control can continue. Whether the housing convention can lure these supporters back, if only for an evening, to back for example, approval of a housing site is unclear. It may be impossible, for rent control remains the most attractive issue...
...artificial situation reflects on university discipline. In effect, the university has no punishments for specific offenses. Severance is not a punishment, it is a decision that here and now a student is not a valuable member of this community; probation is a statement that a student's status is unclear. Neither presupposes guilt, neither is truly a punishment. They are merely statements of the Faculty's dissatisfaction with a student; presumably a student could be severed even if he had committed no offense whatsoever. And different students could be placed in different categories as a result of the same action...
...artificial situation reflects on university discipline. In effect, the university has no punishments for specific offenses. Severance is not a punishment, it is a decision that here and now a student is not a valuable member of this community; probation is a statement that a student's status is unclear. Neither presupposes guilt, neither is truly a punishment. They are merely statements of the Faculty's dissatisfaction with a student; presumably a student could be severed even if he had committed no offense whatsoever. And different students could be placed in different categories as a result of the same action...