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...wouldn't be surprised if there are further increases in the next couple of years." Gill said, but he predicted that the fee increase would not affect the residency plans of most students...
Under present policy, the petition charged, the viewpoint of students "doesn't count for very much." The deans make decisions "unilaterally" and students are "powerless and voiceless in the formulation of policies that affect their lives," the petition warned...
Labor Mediator Theodore Kheel proposes enjoining only those strikes that affect public health and safety; others, he feels, can be managed within the strategies of arbitration. Michigan State University Economist Jack Stieber would group government employees into three categories, only the first of which-possibly limited to policemen and firemen-would not be allowed to strike. Strikes instigated in less essential services would be tacitly tolerated, at least until their cumulative effect went beyond inconvenience...
Newsmen would be free to print anything they could find out, except during the trial itself. Then they would have a general duty not to write anything "willfully designed to affect the outcome of the trial"-although to prove such willful design would not be easy...
...Annapolis authorities. They did so despite the fact that the school's honor code, unlike those at the Air Force Academy and West Point, does not require students to report rule breaking by others. Nonetheless, most of the middies take pot seriously. "Drugs." explains Midshipman Maurice McNeil, "affect a man's judgment-and judgment is the big thing with a man in service...