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Obviously true student government does not exist at Harvard. We are ruled by the College administration. It is time to end the charade. Abolish the Undergraduate Council...
Streisand was proud to say that she was a liberal, an increasingly unpopular statement today as Democrats scramble to the "center" of political debate. She chronicled the liberal record: the fight to abolish child labor, to institute the five day work week, to promote civil rights and liberties, to protect the environment and to establish a social safety net with programs such as Social Security. Liberals should continue this tradition of tolerance and egalitarianism, instead of subscribing to an ideology that pits "normal Americans" against the poor and the "cultural elite...
Republican budget hawks have threatened to cut the size of Perkins loans and the interest subsidy on Stafford loans. But the worst is yet to come--the Republicans also want to abolish the federal Work-Study program. These devastating proposals ominously recall a satirical piece that appeared on this page ("Contract With Harvard," Dartboard, Jan. 6, 1995). "The administration has cut 50 percent of aid allotments in order to trim Harvard's deficit...Sadly, Work-Study jobs now belong to the past," the piece joked...
Take Marion Bartram, a 72-year-old retired orchard tender who as a West Chester school board member swears that she will fight to abolish the works of two Afro-American women writers--Jamaica Kincaid and Pulitizer-Prize winning Toni Morrison--from local public schools. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, she called Morrison "anti-family" and a "man-hater," and accused Kincaid of being a "woman's libber." West Chester school officials, who were attracted to both books partly because of the female protagonists, are embroiled in a debate over yanking the authors off school reading lists...
...braced for what will surely be a bloody battle. House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- a former economics professor -- said bluntly, "I personally am very skeptical about it and think it will destroy jobs, especially for minority teenagers." House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas has said he would like to abolish the minimum wage altogether. "The White House is looking to appeal to its base and to Democrats who have wandered," saysTIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "They are trying to send a clear signal that the Democratic party is on their side on economic issues...