Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposals seem to promise much, but they contain ambiguous and dangerous elements. The "Commission of Inquiry"--with a student majority--will consider violations of the Resolution without taking disciplinary action. Its function will plainly be to set limits on political expression in the University. The actual discipline will, however, be carried out by a 12 member Disciplinary Committee chaired by a member of another faculty. It will, in short, be a Faculty committee, although one with as equal proportion of student members. Its procedures and decisions will reflect the Faculty's wishes on how the political life of the University...
Mendelsohn said the CRR serves a function separate from that of the screening committee--one that is punitive as well as investigative. He said that to associate the two would transfer controversy over the CRR to the screening committee...
...Classified exhibit). First, the road is cut at a point difficult to bypass, using highly accurate guided weapons. Laser-guided bombs have been performing most of this function...
...serves the ruling class. NAM has replaced nonsensical talk about seizing state power with a band of Yippies by seriously considering the best programs and organizing techniques with which to reach working people and make them consider socialism as a real alternative. NAM sees itself as performing an interim function for the seventies: co-founder Lerner summarizes its modest goal as putting "socialism on the national agenda...
...basic objectives: to coordinate the emerging local efforts with some form of national structure, and to select 'program priorities'--issues of national importance which chapters would work on in addition to engaging in local work. The overriding question at the conference was how the national structure would function and how the inherent tension between local needs and national priorities could be resolved...