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...issue arose last spring, when an ad hoc group of some 20 students sent a letter to Dean Rosovsky asking him to appoint a special committee, which would investigate the possibility of creating a new degree-granting concentration on Women's Studies...
...reason for the drawn-out discussion, council members explained, was that the council wanted to decide not just whether to appoint the proposed special committee, but exactly what to charge that committee with doing...
...Department, and the utilities companies' efforts to take over rights to solar energy. The inevitable Washington column is written by Alan Baron, who puts out an insider's newsletter from the capital, and contains some interesting tidbits: Carter's inability to get around Senate recommendations in his efforts to appoint blacks and women to federal judgeships, and his difficulties with American Jews over his Middle East policies--Hamilton Jordan flew to Los Angeles to help push tickets for a $1000-a-plate dinner headed by Lew Wasserman of MCA two weeks ago, and it's seen as a big test...
...more medium security jails, but the legislators who visited Walpole say--along with the inmates--the root of the tension isn't overcrowding, but the attitude of the prison administration toward the prisoners' conditions. But the governor seems likely to ignore that request. Although Dukakis said Thursday he will appoint an investigatory committee, he will continue to push for more jails, rather than more programs--this is, after all, an election year...
During the regular meeting, the council debated the selection procedure for a proposed Cambridge commission on the status of women. A group of residents wanted the commission to have most of the authority to appoint its own members, but the council decided the city charter limits that power to the city manager...