Are UC grades rising due to smarter students or grade inflation
University of California professors question why more students earn high grades now than six or seven years ago. They note stiff competition and uneven application of absolute standards, with guesses that campus solidarity and growth affect grading. Associate Professor Weaver cites misgraded minority students and possible misgrading in OP programs.
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University of California
Stanford University
Mills College
University of California’s
Stanford
Mills
California
Donald Weaver
UC Santa, Barbara
Weaver
Ted
Gra
Charles Hitch
Rockets' red glare on con pier sparks calling for action
The piece argues bombings threaten public safety at police stations and urges targeting bombers and tightening explosives laws while defending freedom. It stresses that repression cannot silence abhorrent ideas and recalls past resilience under danger.
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Con Pier
York
Congress
Fragmentary political collage teases presidential faces
A fragmented, playful line of satire contrasts Nixon, Fulbright, Reagan, Kennedy and Raquel Welch faces. The piece muses on identity and public image using pop culture and political figures in a humorous, collage style.
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Nixon
Fulbright
Reagan
Teddy Kennedy
Raquel Welch
Book Highlights From East to West Frontier and More
A roundup of recent books including The Ugly Frontier by David Shear detailing life along the East West frontier with refugees and divisions. Also in review are Songs of the Bards of Ben Gal translations, The Evolution of Man and Society by C D Darlington, Native Sons Reader edited by Edward Margolles, and other works by Grove and Simon & Schuster.
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David Shear ‘Knopf
Germany
BEN+GAL
Chandidas
Vidyapati
Debeh Bhattacharya
Grove
C. D. Darlington
Simon, and Schuster
Wells
Native Sons
Edward Margolles
Lippincott
W. E.B. DuBois
James Baldwin
Richard Wright
Countee Cullen
John A. Williams
Langston Hughes
Chester Himes
LeRoy Jones
Malcolm X
Mldridge Cleaver
Morality over Budget Cuts in California Legislature
The editor criticizes the 5 percent cost of living removal from the 1970-71 budget for college faculty as punitive and morally crude. The writer, a Republican member, argues the move reflects primitive ethics and urges John Schmitz to revisit ethics basics before serving in Washington.
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California
Republican Party
Reek
John Schmitz
Senate
Schmitz
House’ of Representatives
Washington
Letters complain about cut in aged care and welfare policy
A Long Beach reader decries a $4 cut in attendant care for the aged disabled and questions government aid. The letter cites personal health issues and requests concrete assurances on services and transportation, while referencing a July IPT social workers note and Reagan welfare criticism.
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OAS
Coud
Reagan
California
Long Beach
C. J. Pritchard
Nixon's cabinet splits amid White House discord in Vietnam
A Washington analysis notes the Nixon administration shows strain as Rogers Kissinger Finch Moynihan Hickel Romney and Dole clash over policy. The White House is described as a debating society with leaders on Capitol Hill fostering conflicting views inside the administration.
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Washington
Nixon
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
Rogers
Vietnam
Robert ‘Finch
Daniel ' Patrick Moynihan
Hickel
Romney
White House
Capitol Hill
Kansas
Robert Dole
Pennsylvania
Hugh Nixon
Nixon era rifts widen over Middle East and youth program
Richard Wilson reports on internal White House strains as Republicans clash with Nixon policies. Senate critics Goldwater and Dole fault administration for appointing dissenting officials and hindering Moynihan’s youth effort. Blumenthal case signals broader staff shifts and frictions in Congress.
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Richard D. Blumenthal
Bey Kihan
VISTA
Congress
Washington
Dole
Goldwater
Senate
White House
NATO Divisions Over European Security Conference Debate
UPI reports NATO allies differ on a proposed European security conference with Warsaw Pact states. The United States backs mutual force reductions while fearing acceptance of the Brezhnev Doctrine, seeking a balance before mid-1970s withdrawals.
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Washington
UPI
NATO
Hellege
Brusgelg
United States
Russia
East Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Britain
Brezhnev
Communist Party
Rome
Warsaw Pact
Moscow
U.S
Europe
Germany
Atlantic
Congressional
Oisashivet
Nixon
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Justice Department
Barry Goldwater
Bec Ins
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Blumenthal
Pat Moynihan
Bob Finch
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