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...Consensus on the Board seems to be to continue to treat even selling as an internal problem, at least for the moment, and to punish drug use and transfer when they come to the Board's attention, though less severely than the Board punishes selling...
...after about an hour of discussion, Kilson said later, he felt that the consensus of the group was to take more time on the issues before recommending to the Faculty Council that the Faculty consider the University's role in the GM proxy fight...
...well-intended, a fair statement of the case law and a realistic appraisal of the situation." Johns Hopkins' Dr. James Coleman, author of a well-known study on the educational effects of integration and an expert whom Nixon consulted before issuing the statement, disagreed. "I think the consensus of recent court decisions is stronger than the message," said Coleman. "I was quite disappointed in the enforcement section." Both Bickel and Coleman, however, welcomed the pledge of $1.5 billion. No one knows where that money is coming from or exactly how it will be apportioned. "That has not been finalized...
Bond: We should develop greater unity in the black community. There ought to be at least a community-wide consensus of what ought to be done, politically, socially, economically and educationally. In Atlanta, we're going to have two black candidates running in the same congressional district. Two black candidates can only hurt the prospect of one's being elected...
...wants its children educated is a perfectly legitimate political issue. In California, though, the combatants are so angry that few ponder the real problem: the role of today's university. "Nearly all our troubles go back to one basic difficulty," says U.C.L.A. Chancellor Charles Young. "There is no consensus as to what the university is, what its function is, and in what its importance to society consists." Until there is, universities and politicians will play politics...