Word: personals
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State Rep. John Backman, one of the heads of the two-year study said the draft recommends that the laws be changed "in proportion to a drugs danger to the person and society." Backman said, "Anyone who is a drug-dependent person should be treated by the Mental Health Department... not put in jail...
...WHAT if they don't? I'm not sure I see why we should try to do anything about that. We can just admit that the B.A. doesn't really say much about a person except that he has spent a certain amount of time here. If we did not change the sixteen-course graduate requirement-there would be no necessity for doing so-the degree would then also signify a certain number of courses taken. We do not really need to certify more than that, and in fact we do not now. A "major" has no professional importance anyway...
...scuttle the sixteen-course requirement as well and leave every man's education up to him? I have doubts about how well that would work out. Ideally, we should omit the four years too, and the whole community revert to the Greek university, a community for inquiry where a person stays as long as he deems needful. But that kind of university also should not grant degrees. Maybe the time will come when we can seriously entertain such a possibility. But given the function of the B.A. in current American society, we would do many of our undergraduates a disservice...
Dean May has said that the other 50 students couldn't be identified. There is evidence to indicate that this isn't the case. Barbara Slavin, who testified at her trial before the Committee, reported that every person in the University's photographic evidence had a letter or number next to his or her head. Some of those clearly visible toward the front of the pictures were not charged, though Miss Slavin thought they were known to the Administration. For the most part these people were new to radical polities. Why wouldn't the Dean not want to charge...
...TRIALS themselves are as "intimidating" as anything Dean May felt in the nasty November 19 demonstration. They are closed meetings, where only witnesses and one person for counsel are permitted. Three policemen escort each of the defendants through four sets of locked doors on the way to the trial. Each set of doors is carefully unlocked in front and then locked behind the defendant before the next set is opened. No press is allowed, even if the defendant asks for his testimony to be made public. Virtually all those charged in the political demonstrations of the past year have asked...