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Elsewhere in the nation anti-immigrant sentiment is widespread but less intense. Asked specifically by pollsters if they favor curbing immigration, most people say they do, but when presented with a general question as to what they consider the nation's most serious problems, only about 2% mention reducing immigration. Many people too have very mixed feelings. Even in California the most vehement opponents of illegal immigration profess the highest regard for those who come to the U.S. legitimately and even view them as potential allies. "If you came here and obeyed the laws, then you should...
...political rather than scientific reasons." One common yet radical suggestion is that RU 486 and prostaglandin could be sold to women as prescription drugs and taken at home. "To even suggest that you could do that is ridiculous," protests Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. That sentiment finds some support even from Baulieu. He opposes distribution by prescription because of what he calls "the cousin syndrome" -- the woman for whom the drug was prescribed might pass it on to a cousin or friend, who has not had a gynecological exam. In rare cases, that woman may be having...
...recent activities of the Undergraduate Council may confirm this. In recent years, ideologues like Randal S. Jeffrey '91 have lost races for chair, and former chair David A. Aronberg '93 says, "There's a greater sentiment that we should be handling student services." This year, the council offered no comment on Mansfield's remarks or on the selection of Gen. Colin Powell as commencement speaker...
Presumably the council members reflect the sentiment of the student body as a whole. "What's going to affect people more: the U.C. spending $800 on a Stairmaster or writing a letter about minority faculty hiring?" Students, once made sufficiently "aware," can return to the activities that more directly help them...
Dean of the School of Public Health Harvey V. Fineberg '67 echoes that sentiment. "I never expected it, but I'm in the middle group of deans at this stage," says Fineberg, who has led the school for nine years...