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...turned down yesterday a student's petition requesting a waiver of the 30-day deadline for filing complaints concerning the "Counter Teachin" disruption...
...Cambridge City Council made no report last night on its investigation into the failure of the Board of Zoning Appeals to give a zoning waiver to Printed Matter Inc., an unroofed newsstand at 1210 Mass...
Responding to pressure from Under-secretary of State Eliot L. Richardson '41 and several prominent members of the academic community, Secretary of State Rogers requested a waiver of ineligibility "in the interest of free expression of opinion and exchange of ideas...
Lifschutz protested, relying on a battery of arguments, including a claim that the Constitution gives psychotherapists an absolute right not to disclose, regardless of their patients' wishes. Moreover, Lifschutz argued, the patient cannot make an informed waiver of his rights-he may not know what his doctors will say about him. Worse still, said Lifschutz, a psychiatrist's testimony might well torment his patient and destroy the treatment process...
Last week the high court upheld the decision to hold the psychiatrist in contempt. In essence, the decision reaffirmed the state's waiver law. When a plaintiff makes his own mental condition an issue in a lawsuit, the court ruled, the need for accurate trial evidence overrides a psychiatrist's right to protect the confidentiality of what he knows. Even so, the court recognized a patient's right to avoid public embarrassment. It emphasized that judges should limit the scope of the inquiry in the light of "the nature of the injuries which the patient-litigant himself...