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Meanwhile, cries for a more stringent federal gun control policy--which Reagan continues to oppose--came from all over the country. "This is horrendous," former Sen. John Culver '54, who is now at the Kennedy School of Government, said Monday, adding. "No one is safe...
This conclusion is supported by a study of Massachusetts' stringent 1975 gun law, which imposes a mandatory one-year jail term for carrying an unlicensed gun. Says Sociologist Glenn Pierce of Northeastern University in Massachusetts: "The level of criminal activity has not declined, but the character of the crime seems to have been affected. There are fewer gun-related offenses, and as a result it appears the offenses committed are less deadly." Homicides declined 55% during a two-year period, as shown by a study launched shortly before the bill became law. When those opposed to gun control proclaim...
...very point of affirmative action is to ensure that women and members of minority groups will have equal opportunity to be considered for tenured appointments on the basis of stringent academic criteria. It is not because there have not been qualified women that so few women have been appointed in the past; rather, it has been the exclusion of women from consideration by the imposition of irrelevant criteria...
Robin Schmidt, the University's vice-president for Government and Community Affairs, said yesterday that the plans for MATEP have been "subjected to extensive review" by the state for the past four years, adding that Massachusetts standards are "as stringent as the Federal standards...
...members of the Corporation are as committed to majority rule in South Africa as they say they are, they should not look backward, but ahead--to what new, more stringent limitations they can impose on Harvard's investments in apartheid. If Harvard cannot support "generally desirable" shareholder resolutions introduced by other groups because of what one Corporation member described as "poor wording," then perhaps Harvard should introduce some resolutions...