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Next week the annual census on Peking's legitimacy will be taken, as delegates to the United Nations General Assembly vote on China's admission to the U.N. Because that admission has always been treated as an "important question" requiring a two-thirds assenting vote, there is almost no chance that Peking will gain membership. Even so, if a majority of the members voting approve, the U.S. will find itself in an awkward position as chief lobbyist against China's admission...
Whatever the vote, it will increase pressure on Washington to modify its China policy. The first step could be a negative one-simply to stop campaigning against Peking's admission to the U.N. The ultimate change in U.S. policy would be full recognition of China...
...countless ways from countless campus press mills, has the message been put across to the 1,300 sportswriters and broadcasters who will vote later this month to determine the winner of the Heisman Memorial Trophy, a 50-lb. hunk of bronze that is awarded annually to the "outstanding college football player of the United States." Whoever wins it should award a trophy to his campaign manager, otherwise known as sports information director. Indeed, in this election year, the hustle for the Heisman has been so hard a sell that it has been difficult to tell the players from the politicians...
Radcliffe is called a liberal college. Yet Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and other institutions have less stringent regulations about parietal hours than does Radcliffe. Each house at Radcliffe, in cooperation with its head resident, should be allowed the choice to vote for or against "open" open house...
Following the vote on the proposals, Saundra Graham, president of the Riverside Planning Team, said, "It is our intention to make clear to the Harvard Corporation that their commitment has not ended; rather it has just begun. What we have now is a series of high rise monuments along the Charles River as testimony to the fraud that Harvard has any real concern for the preservation of the Riverside neighborhood...