Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Placement exams and modify the sophomore standing program. The Faculty had postponed a decision on the motion last May. It was tabled yesterday at the request of Dean May, who had originally proposed it. May said it was only planned to have been an interim measure during a full-scale review of the AP program...
...defense and mutual security. The current isolationist-internationalist debate threatens to undercut Presidential activism. Vietnam has shaken the tenacity of even Nixon's anti-Communist ideology. He is somewhere between believing in the essential rightness of the war and recognizing that American interest requires its liquidation. His effort to scale down the war may seem imperceptible-indeed he still clings to the rhetoric of intervention and to the paranoid concern for national prestige-but that only makes his ambivalence about the war more interesting. The rhetoric of intervention makes for bad diplomacy because it sacrifices national interest for national prestige...
...provincial elections, René Levesque's Parti Québecois, which demands an independent Quebec free of political ties to Canada, won 24% of the vote. But while most separatists seek their goals by peaceable means, a number seek to turn their fight for French separatism into full-scale urban guerrilla war. The Liberation Front, which probably numbers no more than 100 hard-core activists, is by far the most radical of the fringe groups...
Automatic Degrees? Will they get it? At least half the freshmen need some remedial teaching before they can deal with college-level work. But no one yet knows whether the techniques that worked for SEEK students can be applied successfully on a mass scale. Many critics, including Spiro Agnew and some faculty members, fear that C.U.N.Y. risks turning itself into a college-level version of the failure-breeding high schools. Other skeptics contend that students who receive automatic college places may become embittered when they encounter persistent academic difficulties. If they then demand automatic degrees, they could devalue the credentials...
...closer to that of oil produced in the U.S., where the domestic market is protected by import quotas. At the present rate of rise in demand, the U.S. will need to import an estimated 50% of its oil by 1980. The only visible source for imports on such a scale is the Middle East. By best estimates, Alaska's North Slope holds no more than 10% as much as the reserves of the Arab countries and Iran, and there is little hope that Indonesia's offshore fields will prove rich enough even to fill Japan's needs...