Word: unjust
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...Radcliffe Houses do not have individual House libraries and the new requirement that Quadrangle residents trek three-quarters of a mile for the most basic scientific data is just one more example of the mistreatment to which Quad residents have become accustomed. The inequity is even more unjust given the inordinately large numbers of science concentrators who live at Radcliffe...
...Supreme Court declared last spring (in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez) that the current property tax system, ensuring quality education for the rich and poor education for the impoverished, is constitutional. Even so, many educators and taxpayers agree with Justice Potter Stewart that it is "chaotic and unjust...
...repository of a society's ethics and morals. It is of course also slavishly technical, extravagantly complex and simultaneously too precise and not precise enough. But its very imperfection is why it has need of lawyers constant ly to nurture its growth and to correct its sometimes unjust ways. Legal groups may need to devise new guidelines that somehow strike a better balance between the roles of counselor and advocate. But the chief difficulty is find ing and restoring to the profession its sense of duty to the continuing experiment of law. Some slight satisfaction can be salvaged from...
Opponents to merger argue that its benefits are illusory. Believing that the problem of equal access is secondary to reform of the institution to which women seek admission, the most extreme group claims that no good can come from merger with the callous and unjust University. But whatever the issue, women are now in no position to change anything, although they continue to be affected by Harvard's policies. Through merger, women can become a pressure group within the University more difficult to disregard than "those Radcliffe bitches...
Powell, a 5-to-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court last March struck down a Texas lawsuit that aimed at greater equality of spending in education. Although it may be unjust for wealthy school districts to have more money to spend on education, the court said, these inequities in local taxes* should be solved by the states and local communities themselves. Since then, a number of them have been trying to do just that...