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Students were provided additional personal input into the process when the Ad Board added and appeals function in the early 1970s. If the Ad Board agreed to hear an appeal, students were permitted to appear before the Board to present their own case...
Effective immediately, USG will not hire smokers at the acoustical-products plants. This week the company will begin giving periodic physicals and pulmonary-function exams, and a Smokenders program will be started for the third of its workers who smoke. Should smokers' health profiles fail to improve -- an indication that they are sneaking cigarettes at home -- they may be fired...
...sent delegates to the board since the group's founding about 20 years ago. Cattalini says she believes RUS' greatest function is in "helping [the trustees] know what students are thinking about...
...other feminists contend pregnancy leave simply acknowledges women's childbearing function and neutralizes its effect on career advancement. The California law "in effect equalizes working men and women," argues Christine Littleton, counsel for the Los Angeles-based Coalition for Reproductive Equality in the Workplace. "It is okay to recognize that women have some difference in their requirements," says Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who has criticized feminists in the past for denigrating the importance of women's child-rearing and family responsibilities. "This decision means that there is recognition at the highest legal levels that in order to get equal results...
...player who has demonstrated the ability to function under the hoop is junior Co-Captain Sharon Hayes. "We have been taking Sharon inside," Delaney Smith said, "but she is really more effective on the perimeter." Hayes doesn't appear to be suffering from the switch--she has scored in double figures in the last eight games, netting a team-high 14 points against the Big Green. Hayes also contributed nine rebounds, as did Duncan (10 points...