Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue regarding Galveston should have been captioned "V for Vicious" instead of "V for Vice." By stating that Galveston is having a wide-open bonanza in gambling and prostitution and that Galveston is the shame of Texas you are not reporting the facts. Also, you commit a gross injustice against our city by spreading such rot all over creation. There are plenty of cities in Texas and in the nation that make Galveston look like Orphan Annie's doll's house...
Moreover, some of the most serious young students of politics hesitate to commit themselves to any proposal, platform, or program. It is well said of most College petitions on national matters that "those who sign don't read, and those who do read the don't sign." Though the the scattered remnants of McCarthyism account for some of this fear, it is both childish and self-deceptive to place even most of the blame on the late demagogue from Wisconsin. A large number of students remain politically naive, and of those who have studied the issues, many prefer to keep...
...Houses met a mixed reaction--far from the nearly unanimous approval they enjoy today. The CRIMSON wondered editorially whether the new social system might not infringe on student individuality, and the undergraduates themselves were not uniformly anxious to commit their College life to the House idea. As the months rolled on, however, one House after another was completed, and the Class of '34 became the first (in history) to spend all three of its upperclass years as members of a House system that quickly gained student respect...
...that his bizarre beat does not affect him: "I don't have any trouble sleeping." But watching men die has made him a firm opponent of capital punishment. Says he: "I'm sure there have been at least six or seven executed for crimes they did not commit, and Lord only knows how many people died for crimes they did commit but whose punishment was too severe...
...Commit addicts to the special hospitals for at least two months for medical (including psychiatric) treatment, vocational training, and rehabilitation. ¶ Keep discharged victims visiting the hospital's out-patient clinic for continued psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation; prescribe maintenance doses of narcotics at cost† on a tapering-off schedule for addicts who revert to the drugs; prescribe minimum maintenance doses for incurables...