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...rules eliminate the moratorium on House transfers for freshmen who received a low choice assignment by the Housing Office. Before the new regulations, the office would not allow freshmen to change Houses until December...
...abstracted--they weep in one eye, they may cry in the other, but they are grounded in reality. The Welles's Larry Jackson thinks that the Nixon administration hurt people's interest in good films just as he thinks it crushed the student movement "just after the first moratorium." Since then, he says, "films that accentuate political problems have simply increased frustration over whether conditions can be changed...
Hard Question. Nonetheless, a minority of scientists, environmentalists and consumerists are determined to stop the nuclear program cold on safety grounds. Already, legislation has been introduced in eight states to impose a moratorium on the building of new nuclear plants. The debate centers on an almost insoluble question: How safe is safe enough...
LIBERALS have never much liked demonstrations. Most were willing to go down to Washington once a year during the Vietnam War, sing a few bars of "All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance" and then go back to their home communities. After the demonstration, or the "moratorium" as they prefered to call it, most liberals went back to their day to day routine. A few got active in congressional and senatorial campaigns or joined the McCarthy and McGovern crusades. However, very few went back to organize demonstrations on a local basis. Direct action tactics have usually been frowned...
Earthquake Effects. As a result, many private-university officials have been pressing the legislature to call a moratorium on construction on public campuses and to increase public tuition charges. With those charges as low as they are now, says Boston University President John Silber, "we have to offer something so good that a student is willing to pay ten times as much to get it." Silber favors low public tuition, but he is indignant about the additional $200 million in capital funds still needed to complete the Columbia Point campus. He points out that theinterest alone on such...