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Silber's decision to relax the ban came after he appointed a task force to study the plan. The president's revised decision incorporates some of their proposals, but is still more stringent than the task force recommended late last month...
...professors involved in the process said yesterday it is unlikely that any action would be taken on the issue. The subject of grading was first raised after a survey showed a majority of the faculty preferred the more stringent grading system. Defenders of the current system say 'F' grades would constitute an academic 'Scarlet Letter' which would unnecessarily demoralize students...
...federal-court consent decree that must be approved by a judge, and the $50 million detoxification job is expected to take from two to five years. Nevertheless, Ohio officials were especially pleased that the Reagan Administration has agreed to abide by Ohio environmental regulations, some of which are more stringent than federal rules. Said Governor Richard Celeste: "It could become a model for other tough cases that we're wrestling with...
...cost-saving features to placate insurers. Yet such provisions could not halt a continuing exodus that has seen six major firms abandon the state since 1986. Allstate joined their ranks last week, when the Sears subsidiary said it would stop selling policies in Massachusetts to escape the state's stringent regulations...
Although yesterday's panel agreed that the faculty needed more diversity, they disagreed on the means. Bell, one of two tenured Black faculty members, argued for a policy of hiring only women and minorities for the next three years, while others urged less stringent plans...