Word: groupe
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Normalcy was all the more noteworthy for the trial's timing. It started just before Lundy Day, named for the Londonderry governor who in 1689 ordered the city's gates opened to the Catholic army of James II. Lundy's command was defied by a group of apprentice boys who slammed the gates shut. In past years, members of the politically powerful Orange Order have burned 60-foot effigies of Lundy from the highest column in town, illuminating the Catholic slum of Bogside and exacerbating Catholic tempers. This year Lundy stood only four feet high...
Every student is asked to write an anonymous summary of the circumstances that led to his arrest. At sessions that often turn into group therapy, the classes discuss the summaries written by past students. Stewart has concluded that the D.W.I, offender is generally an individual under pressure, anxious about financial or domestic troubles. He is so wrapped up in his own worries that he cannot comprehend the reasons for society's concern with drunken driving. Because of this picture, Stewart's approach now includes more counseling. "Sympathy, insight and patience," he says, "are the keys to working with...
Yale's black law students charge that university police ask them to show their identification cards on campus, but never stop whites for the same purpose. In protest, a group of blacks marched through the classrooms one day chanting, "Stop the cops." After the school threatened four of the demonstrators with discipline, white students joined in a one-day boycott of their classes. "People talk about the need for sensitivity sessions for police," says Yale Law Student J. Otis Cochran, who heads the National Black American Law Students Association. "Hell, law faculties need sensitivity sessions...
...score at least 650 (out of a possible 800) on his law-school aptitude test; but a few blacks have been admitted with scores as low as 420. Stanford allows some low-scoring blacks to earn law degrees in four years instead of the usual three. When several minority-group students and a few whites failed to achieve a passing average of 64 in their first year at U.C.L.A. Law School, the faculty lowered the minimum to 62 for all first-year students -to allow blacks and Chicanos to remain in school on probation...
...with growing vehemence by the radical new sociologists. It is also the burden of recent reports by three separate panels of more traditional social scientists who have made their own appraisals of how the so-called "soft" sciences are-and are not-put to use. The most wide-ranging group is the Behavioral and Social Sciences (BASS) Survey Committee, sponsored by two private organizations, the National Academy of Sciences and the Social Science Research Council. The BASS committee's recommendations...