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Today, the thirty-five members of the Board of Trustees meet for the second of their tri-annual sessions. On their agenda will be both the new constitution of Radcliffe Union of Students and an amendment to alter the Radcliffe Statutes, allowing students to sit on the Radcliffe Council--the College's most important decision-making body. Far from a revolutionary surge, the proposals represent a genuine effort at dialogue on student-administration concerns. The Trustees should not pass up this opportunity for open-minded consideration of student demands...
...added that "these modifications in no way alter the rule which the pub lic safety has always required, that per sons who are dangerous due to mental illness be confined." Despite the dis claimer, the ruling did raise the specter of a murderer found not guilty by rea son of insanity and later judged not insane enough for confinement...
...Glassman's excellent article on March 8, calling attention to the problem of the student to the UHS, misquoted me ever so slightly but enough to alter my essential point. Mr. Glassman wrote that I had said that a psychiatrist from the UHS should have been put on the Student Faculty Advisory Committee while in fact I had said that no psychologist was appointed to the Committee at its inception. The difference does not lie in the irelevant distinction between the Ph.D. and the M.D., but rather in my wish to call attention to the University's need...
...Some Faculty members think we're out not only to increase parietals but also to fundamentally alter the House system," Kaplan stated. "They asked if we would be satisfied with the proposed increase as the last word on parietal change," he said...
Saigon's bars provide an interesting insight into the city's mentality. Some bars have changed the name of the drink guzzled by the bar girls from "Saigon tea" to "Saigon-Hanoi tea." Many of the girls, mindful of Viet Cong retribution for consorting with Americans, now alter the traditional toast, chin-chin-to your health-to chin-chin, Ho Chi Minh. They also bring a change of clothing to work so that they can slip out of their conspicuous B-girl tight pants and into the traditional flowing Ao-Dais for the evening trip home...