Are UC grading standards slipping with student grades rising
University of California professors debate whether higher grades reflect smarter students or grade inflation. They cite tougher college entrance standards at Stanford Mills and UC but note growth and psychological factors may ease grading. Associate Professor Weaver suggests Educational Opportunity Program inflations. UC President Hitch plans a formal study and corrective measures.
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University of California
Stanford University
Mills College
University of California’s
Stanford
Mills
California
Donald Weaver
UC Santa Barbara
Weaver
Charles Hitch
Harder Right and Effective Answers to Bombings
The piece argues bombers must be caught and tried, Congress should limit explosive materials, and officials should resist repression. It calls for preserving freedom, not giving in to fear, and recalls past resilience in preserving liberty amid threats. It emphasizes lawful response over scapegoating and conspiratorial charges.
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New York
Congress
Faces on a Watch Dial Concept Sparks Debate
A speculative idea envisions snap-on dial faces featuring public figures like Nixon Fulbright Reagan Kennedy and even Raquel Welch turning watches into political caricatures. Critics question practicality and taste, asking if the trend would be a playful novelty or a bust.
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Nixon
Fulbright
Reagan
Teddy Kennedy
Raquel Welch
Books in Brief: Frontiers Memoir and Indian Poets
A review roundup highlights Devill Shears’s The Ugly Frontier from Knopf 6.95 about life along the East Germany Berlin Wall border, plus translations and poetry volumes. Debuts include Songs of the Bards of Ben Gal and Vidyapati from Grove, and Darlington’s The Evolution of Man and Society. Native Sons Reader, Lippincott 3.95, collects 20th century Black American writers.
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Native Sons
Edward Margolies
Lippincott
Wieb. B. DuPois
James Baldwin
Richard Wright
Countee Cullen
John A. Williams
Langston Hughes
Chester Vimes
LeRoy Jones
Malcolm X
Widridge Cleaves
Dignity Lost Aged and Disabled Face Welfare Cuts
A reader asks what actions will accompany elderly and disabled aid cuts, listing needed services like groceries, laundry, transportation, and wheelchair outings. The letter questions whether reforms will push people into rest homes and criticizes Reagan era welfare policies and California influx.
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OAS
California Budget Cuts Spark Moral Critique from State Faculty
A faculty member condemns the 5 percent cost of living removal and 40 percent raise deletion in the 1970 71 budget as punitive and unethical. The writer cites Senator John Schmitz's role, calls for ethical reflection, and notes personal Republican alignment while urging moral reconsideration.
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California
Republican Party
Tam 4
John Schmitz
Senate
Nixon’s White House Fractures Over Policy Ties
A wary view portrays Nixon's administration as a patchwork coalition with Rogers Finch Moynihan Hickel Romney and others at odds with each other and with Nixon. The White House is described as a debating body where policy clashes with competing viewpoints challenge cohesive leadership.
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Washington
Nixon
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
Rogers
Vietnam
Robert Finch
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Hickel
Romney
White House
Capital Hill
Kansas
Robert Dole
Pennsylvania
Hugh Scott
Nixon Era Tensions Roil White House and Congress
Richard D. Blumenthal Moynihan associate quits VISTA over Nixon sincerity concerns. Goldwater warns administration struggles with mid level management. Moynihan finch shifts teased as insiders predict higher changes. Republicans in Congress doubt Nixon era unity as infighting grows.
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State Department
Japan
Justice Department
Barry Goldwater
Senate
Goldwater
Richard D. Blumenthal
Moynihan
VISTA
Nixon
White House
Dole
Blumenthal
Pat Moynihan
Bob Finch
Congress
Washington
Dale
NATO split over Russian Warsaw Pact East West talks
NATO allies debate a proposed European security conference after a Budapest meeting. The United States seeks mutual troop reductions near 1971 with limited unilateral moves, while some nations push for optimism amid concerns over the Brezhnev Doctrine and potential Soviet gains.
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Washington
UPI
NATO
Russia
Europe
Warsaw
Budapest
Norway
Denmark
Netherlands
Belgium
Brussels
United States
Iran
Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Britain
West
Rome
Moscow
U.S
East Germany
West Germany
Atlantic
Nixons
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Dignity Lost
IPT
Long Beach
Sehmitz
House of Representatives
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Education
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Richard Wilson
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