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...spokesman for Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley, president of People Vs. Handguns, a group which backs the handgun ban, said yesterday that placing the alternative measure on the ballot represents an attempt to cloud the issue and a "corruption of the petition process." He said People Vs. Handguns plans to go to court in the next few days to challenge its legitimacy...
...spokesman for Sherrif Buckley said if the handgun ban question appears on the ballot by itself is a "better than 50 per cent chance that it will be approved," but its chances of passage are slim if the alternative also appears...
General Counsel Steiner has one assistant in an office that is now regarded as a major nerve center at Mass Hall, handling the growing volume of federal legislation like the recently passed Buckley Amendment, opening student files, and various titles, labor disputes and law suits. The dean of the College has a mass of deans and assistant deans under him, often formally repeating functions that are limited to housing, counseling and disciplinary groups like the Administrative Board. Budget cuts, which Faculty academic departments suffered through in the last few years, didn't fall heavily on the College dean's office...
Congress mandated student access to files in 1974 with the passage of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, also known as the Buckley Amendment. The purpose of the law was twofold. First, to ensure that students would not be handicapped later in life by inaccurate records, the bill allowed students (and the parents of schoolchildren) to expunge erroneous material and to control third-party access to files. Second, to give students some understanding of the basis on which school authorities came to vital decisions about them, the law granted students access to their educational records...
Harvard's policy of destroying letters of recommendation sent to the Admissions Office, after such letters have remained in the files for three years, is commendably in keeping with the first goal of the Buckley Amendment. But the practice of preventing students from seeing those letters is less commendable. Harvard routinely removes letters of recommendation, along with guidance counselors' reports, from students' accessible files. The University has no procedures for informing students how much has been removed, where it has been stored, or indeed that anything at all has been taken from students' files. Although the law allows such...